A senior police officer involved in the investigation has told Capital FM News that they are questioning the student said to have attempted to commit suicide more than twice previously before she resorted to setting their dormitory on fire on Saturday morning.
We have ruled out an accident in this because we have a suspect,” the senior officer briefed on the progress of the investigation told us Monday, soon after Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi told a news conference that the incident was an arson attack but he was economical with further details.
But the senior officer who spoke to us on condition of anonymity said detectives had established that in one instance, the student being questioned had unsuccessfully attempted to kill herself by swallowing a detergent.
“She will definitely face charges in court once the investigation is completed,” the officer said in what was also corroborated by another senior officer at Police Headquarters. “That is true, it was an arson attack by one of the students at the school.”
“At sunrise, when the police and the Red Cross arrived, we were told Meg was among the individuals who had been taken to healing facility since she had been scorched. I felt terrible on the grounds that she spared us however wound up being singed,” she said.
Trouble
Mary capitulated to the wounds at 3.am following two days at the Kenyatta National Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit, where she was conceded with two different young ladies.
Detectives were on Monday still taking statements from the student while seeking to establish if she had worked with any other person in committing the crime that cost nine lives of her colleagues and more than 50 others injured.
Detectives were also keen to establish from the girl’s parents on her background and what could have led her to commit the crime, with an initial report the school gave to police showing she had challenges in school where her parents were often called to solve
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