This archive report was first published on 10 October 2021.
Published on October 10, 2021, a woman who was part of a drinks spiking gang in Mombasa had a taste of her own medicine when she unknowingly took a drink that she had laced and passed out.
Leah Mwenja, 31, was found unconscious together with three men at Shikara apartments in Nyali, Mombasa county, where the men had booked themselves.
According to reports, the three men, believed to be senior Kisumu county officials and an MCA, had been at the popular Masai beach restaurant earlier that night.
They had bought rounds of alcohol and stayed until late, when some women approached them and suggested they move to their rooms.
It was there that Mwenja and her accomplices allegedly spiked the men's drinks, but in a shocking twist, Mwenja unknowingly took a drink she had laced and passed out.
Her two accomplices fled when they realised their partner in crime had passed out, leaving behind the county officials' laptops, mobile phones, and other valuables.
Detectives in Nyali police station are now interrogating Mwenja on the whereabouts of her accomplices to recover the stolen valuables.
Doctors at the Coast General Hospital who treated the three men have declared them to be out of danger.
