A 33-year-old man who was found unconscious with stab wounds in a room of an apartment where a woman fell and died in Kasarani has recovered and has been discharged from the hospital.
Lawrence Gitonga was on Thursday produced at the Makadara Law Courts where the prosecution asked for more time to complete the murder investigations.
The court allowed police to detain him for 14 days to enable them to complete investigations into the fatal fall of a 20-year-old woman from the tenth floor of a house in Thome, Kasarani, Nairobi.
The incident happened on March 2.
According to detectives, Gitonga was arrested on March 2 after the caretaker in the Kivulini area of Kasarani reported the body of a female adult was found lying near the White House apartment.
The victim was later identified as Juanitor Mbula Nzomo.
Police who responded to the alert suspected that the woman had been thrown or fallen from the tenth floor of the flat where she had booked a room with the suspect.
On visiting the said apartment, they found the suspect inside with multiple stab wounds.
He had eight stab wounds and the house was disturbed suggesting a struggle therein before or after the woman died.
The suspect was taken to Uhai Neema Hospital for first aid before being referred to Kenyatta National Hospital for further treatment.
He was released from the hospital on March 6 in stable condition and taken to the Kasarani police station, where he was detained and later produced in court before being taken back there.
CCTV footage captured the final moments of the two checking into the flat at around 3 am Saturday after a night of partying, before the girl was discovered dead in a t-shirt.
In the footage, Gitonga is seen leaving the lift on the 10th floor while holding the hand of the woman.
A postmortem on the body of the woman says she succumbed to the fall injuries.
She had fallen off the balcony of the tenth floor of the apartment.
Pathologist Dr Peter Muriuki Ndegwa said she suffered multiple force trauma injuries consistent with a fall from a height.
Investigators now face challenges in determining whether her death was suicidal, accidental, or a result of murder.
Mbula’s body was discovered behind an apartment within Thome in Kasarani, Nairobi.
When police arrived at the scene hours later, they realised the room she spent in, which also served as a short-term homestay was locked from inside.
The team contacted the owner of the room who arrived with a spare key to enable them access it.
Neighbours told police they heard the woman shouting for help at the balcony of the house before she fell off.
Pictures from the house showed bloody bedsheets and a bathroom. Police said there were blood-stained bed sheets and blood splattered on the bathroom walls and floor.
They suspect the man may have sought refuge in the bathroom after he was stabbed. Police are pursuing several theories into the fatal fall.
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