Journalism student, 19, murdered and body dumped on the roadside

The body of a 19-year old girl was on Saturday morning found dumped by the roadside near Mburiria estate in Kiambu Sub-County.

Purity Wangeci Kiringa, a first year student at Kenya Institute of Mass Communication (KIMC), had visible stab wounds and strangulation marks. The deceased seemed to have been killed elsewhere and her body dumped at the scene by her killers.

Bloodstained bedding, clothes and Purity’s identification documents were among the items recovered.

Preliminary investigations by crime scene detectives who immediately kicked off forensic investigations into the murder, established that the deceased left college on Friday to visit her boyfriend, only identified as VDJ Flex, who lives in Kirigiti, Kiambu County.

The Late Purity Wangechi

According to her friends who were interviewed by the sleuths at the college, Purity and the boyfriend recently had a misunderstanding after she discovered that he was a thug and confronted him with the facts.

 Latest reports indicate that the suspect has already been apprehended.

 Meanwhile, the teenager’s body was moved to the City mortuary, pending an autopsy to determine the actual cause of death and provide more clues on the authors of the murder.