The High Court has acquitted Phillip Onyacha of the 2008 murder of Chepnegetich Misoi.
The acquittal came as a result of trial Judge Jessy Lesit's ruling which stated that the police did not conduct proper investigations.
In 2008, Onyancha was charged with the murders of two women, Catherine Chelangat and Jackline Chepngetich Misoi. He still has cases pending in court.
Allegedly, he murdered Chelangat on November 22, 2008, at Karen, and Misoi on May 30, 2008, at the Mount Kenya building on Nairobi’s Kombo-Munyiri Road.
Previously, the man confessed to killing 19 women and children. However, he denied three murder charges that the DPP’s office brought against him.
In 2014, before Justice Jessie Lessit, Onyancha pleaded not guilty to the crimes.
He denied killing Jacqueline Chepngetich Misoi on May 30, 2008, at the Mount Kenya building on Nairobi’s Kombo Munyiri road and Catherine Chelagat on November 22, 2008.
Onyancha, together with his co-accused Tobias Nyabuhanga Aradi and Douglas Obiero Makori, also denied murdering 14-year-old Anthony Njirwa Muiruri on April 14, 2014 in Ngando village in Dagoretti, Nairobi
The suspect entered a plea after a psychiatrist examination report shown in court that he is capable of doing so.
According to Chief Psychiatrist and Director of Mental Health Services David M. Kiima and Psychiatrists Donald A. Kokonya and James Mburu Onyancha has good present and past memory despite his traumatic past.
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