A suspect in the murder of Vioja Mahakamani actor Jamal Nassul did not take a plea when she appeared at the Mavoko Law Courts on Thursday.

Grace Kanamu Namu appeared before senior principal magistrate Charity Chebii Oluoch, but no charges were read to her.

The prosecution requested for five more days to complete investigations. The court granted the request.

Oluoch directed that the suspect is detained at Mlolongo police station until December 18 when she will reappear in court.

Defense lawyer Cliff Ombeta requested the court permission for his client to seek treatment and it was allowed.

Oluoch said:

I direct that the accused be locked up at Mlolongo police station until December 18 when she will be returned to court for mentioning. She should be taken to hospital for treatment

A police report says Namu allegedly stabbed Nasul at Arks Hotel on Tuesday night after a quarrel.

A good Samaritan called Athi River police station and made a report at 6.15am. It was recorded under OB No 08/12/12/2018.

The police report reads:

It was reported that Jamal Nassul (39), was having a party at Arks Hotel near 67 Airport Hotel on the night of December 11, 2018. There was a quarrel between him and his friend Grace Kanamu Namu (40). She picked a knife and stabbed him

Nassul, who also acted in the KTN Junior series, was rushed to Shalom Community Hospital in Athi River where he was pronounced dead. Meanwhile, police have mounted a search for two unknown people who drove Jamal’s body to Shalom Hospital using a silver Toyota Axio.

Two men identified as MaDVD and another Festus offered to drive Jamal to a nearby hospital,” said the police officer at Mlolongo Police Station.Upon reaching the hospital at around 4am, the doctor on duty said Jamal had already died and declined to receive the body without a notice from the police. The two men, for fear of being implicated, returned the body to the now deserted crime scene,” police investigating the crime revealed.

The source claimed that after the two men abandoned the vehicle, the woman called her daughter who helped take the body to a mortuary in South C.

We circulated the car’s number plate. It was found in South C. It had run out of fuel so it was towed back to the station and the suspect arrested. We have her in our custody,” the officer told Daily Nation, adding the knife was also confiscated.

A doctor who sought anonymity also told the publication that,

It was a single stabbing but it was so deep that it reached the heart of Mr Nassul. Such kinds of stabbings cause one to die after bleeding for 10 minutes or less.

The body was taken from Nairobi to Mombasa for the burial that took place on Thursday.