Police looking for teacher who recruited killer

By NATION Correspondent Posted Wednesday, June 9 2010 at 21:21

Detectives were last night trying to trace a female teacher whom the serial killer, Philip Onyancha, claimed recruited him into a blood-sucking cult.

Detectives piecing together 17 murders in different parts of the country want to question the woman, believed to have once taught at a school in Mahiga, Othaya.

There was drama as Mr Onyancha, a security guard, was taken to Nyeri town to identify the lodgings where he killed one of his victims in April 2007.

Drank her blood

Police had a hard time controlling angry wananchi who wanted to lynch him as he led them to the lodging.

Mr Onyancha, 33, said he killed a 20-year-old woman at the lodging on Gakere Road and drank her blood.

He easily identified room number 13 at Ngurunga Bar where he said he had negotiated with the watchman and paid Sh200 instead of the Sh350 fee, on condition he did not get a receipt.

The woman was found with her throat slit. Even after arresting the watchman, police made no headway because no identity records had been left.

Mr Onyancha freely chatted with journalists as police officers waited for managers of the lodgings to open the gate to the rooms.

The former guard said he had schooled in Kericho where his parents worked in a tea farm and later at Kenyatta High School, Mahiga near Nyeri where his brother worked for the Kenya Power and Lighting Company.

Mr Onyancha refused to disclose details of his family only saying he had many siblings. He also explained why he had refused to pick his KCSE certificate at his former school.

“That has only a grade C-. After leaving school I enrolled privately for KCSE and have another certificate with Grade B-. Why would I need the C- certificate,” he said as he waited to be ushered into the Ngurunga rooms.

Source: Daily Nation