This archive report was first published on 8 July 2021.
On July 8, 2021, the High Court set free Philip Onyancha, a man suspected of being a serial killer, after the trial judge ruled that the police did not provide enough evidence to prove his guilt in the murder of Chepngetich Misoi in 2008.
Onyancha was charged with the murders of two women, Catherine Chelangat and Jackline Chepngetich Misoi, in 2008. He denied killing Misoi on May 30, 2008, at the Mount Kenya building on Nairobi's Kombo Munyiri road, and also denied killing Chelagat on November 22, 2008.
During the hearing, Justice Jessie Lesit noted that the police failed to investigate a crucial piece of evidence, a stain on the deceased's door captured by the crime scene investigator. Onyancha pleaded not guilty to the murders in 2014.
It remains to be seen if Onyancha will be set free in the other count of murder that he is facing. His case has lasted over ten years, putting a dent on the Kenyan judicial system.
