This archive report was first published on 25 October 2019.
On October 25, 2019, a shocking discovery was made in Nairobi's South B estate when a university lecturer's 13-year-old son's decomposing body was found in their home.
Annah Khahugani, a lecturer at the University of Nairobi's School of Nursing, had locked her son Solomon Inyama inside their sixth-floor house, where he died.
According to the caretaker, Stephen Mwangi, he had gone to collect rent from the tenants who had defaulted, including Annah. When he knocked on the door, no one opened, but when he rang her up, he could hear the phone ringing inside the house.
He decided to check one of the windows and found it open. When he peeped through it, he saw a body lying on the floor in the sitting room.
Police were forced to cut the grill of the main door to access the house because Annah had locked it from inside.
Annah told police that her son fell and died in the house and she did not take him to the hospital because she does not believe in hospitals.
She was found hiding in a cupboard after officers broke into the house and was detained at Industrial Area Police Station ahead of a planned visit to a psychiatric for assessment of her mental status.
Area police boss Kimani Mitugo said Annah is in their custody and investigations are still ongoing. The body was taken to Chiromo mortuary for post-mortem.
