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Re: Kelvin Kangethe: US fugitive wanted for murder escapes custody in Kenya
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On 28 Feb 2022, Lefty Lundquist <lefty_l...@ggmail.com> posted some
news:svjma9$4q3$3...@dont-email.me:
> Sure he escaped. $25 US is the going rate to get out of jail in
> Kenya. Just ask Obama.
A man who fled the US after allegedly killing his girlfriend has
mysteriously escaped police custody in Kenya.
Kelvin Kangethe, 41, was arrested last week while leaving a club in
Kenya's capital, Nairobi, after a months-long manhunt by Kenyan and US
authorities.
A court had allowed police to hold him for 30 days awaiting his
extradition.
Authorities say that after Mr Kangethe murdered his girlfriend last
October, he abandoned her body in a car at the Boston Logan Airport.
He then boarded a flight to Kenya, his country of origin.
He has not commented on the allegations.
Police have shocked Kenyans by disclosing that Mr Kangethe managed to
walk out of the Nairobi police station where he was being detained on
Wednesday evening and boarded a public transport vehicle.
Four police officers who were on duty and a lawyer who had met Mr
Kangethe before he escaped have been arrested, Nairobi police commander
Adamson Bungei told local media.
The privately owned Star newspaper quoted Mr Bungei as saying that the
security lapse was "embarrassing" for Kenyan police, who have since
launched a new search for Mr Kangethe.
The family of Mr Kangethe's girlfriend, Margaret Mbitu, told US media
that she had been planning to end their relationship before he allegedly
killed her.
She was a 30-year-old Kenyan-American nurse working in Halifax,
Massachusetts.
Ms Mbitu was last seen alive leaving her workplace on the evening of 30
October last year.
She was reported missing the same day and her body was discovered two
days later.
Authorities believe Mr Kangethe left the US during the window between Ms
Mbitu's disappearance and the discovery of her body.
They linked Mr Kangethe to the murder after security footage captured
him leaving the airport parking lot where Ms Mbitu's body was later
found.
He caught a flight the morning after Ms Mbitu's disappearance.
A Kenyan court was due to rule on Friday whether Mr Kangethe should be
tried in Kenya or be extradited to face first-degree murder charges in
the US, after he claimed that he had renounced his US citizenship last
year.
https://news.yahoo.com/kelvin-kangethe-us-fugitive-wanted-073404473.html
news:svjma9$4q3$3...@dont-email.me:
> Sure he escaped. $25 US is the going rate to get out of jail in
> Kenya. Just ask Obama.
A man who fled the US after allegedly killing his girlfriend has
mysteriously escaped police custody in Kenya.
Kelvin Kangethe, 41, was arrested last week while leaving a club in
Kenya's capital, Nairobi, after a months-long manhunt by Kenyan and US
authorities.
A court had allowed police to hold him for 30 days awaiting his
extradition.
Authorities say that after Mr Kangethe murdered his girlfriend last
October, he abandoned her body in a car at the Boston Logan Airport.
He then boarded a flight to Kenya, his country of origin.
He has not commented on the allegations.
Police have shocked Kenyans by disclosing that Mr Kangethe managed to
walk out of the Nairobi police station where he was being detained on
Wednesday evening and boarded a public transport vehicle.
Four police officers who were on duty and a lawyer who had met Mr
Kangethe before he escaped have been arrested, Nairobi police commander
Adamson Bungei told local media.
The privately owned Star newspaper quoted Mr Bungei as saying that the
security lapse was "embarrassing" for Kenyan police, who have since
launched a new search for Mr Kangethe.
The family of Mr Kangethe's girlfriend, Margaret Mbitu, told US media
that she had been planning to end their relationship before he allegedly
killed her.
She was a 30-year-old Kenyan-American nurse working in Halifax,
Massachusetts.
Ms Mbitu was last seen alive leaving her workplace on the evening of 30
October last year.
She was reported missing the same day and her body was discovered two
days later.
Authorities believe Mr Kangethe left the US during the window between Ms
Mbitu's disappearance and the discovery of her body.
They linked Mr Kangethe to the murder after security footage captured
him leaving the airport parking lot where Ms Mbitu's body was later
found.
He caught a flight the morning after Ms Mbitu's disappearance.
A Kenyan court was due to rule on Friday whether Mr Kangethe should be
tried in Kenya or be extradited to face first-degree murder charges in
the US, after he claimed that he had renounced his US citizenship last
year.
https://news.yahoo.com/kelvin-kangethe-us-fugitive-wanted-073404473.html
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