The body of a nine-year-old girl who was defiled and strangled to death in Kakamega, allegedly by her relatives and buried three years ago, was exhumed on Thursday for the extraction of samples as part of a murder investigation.
The exhumation process was led by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Homicide Director Martin Nyuguto, Western Region Police Commander Issa Mohamud, Kakamega County Pathologist Dickson Muchana, police, and detectives from Kakamega Central Police Station.
The body of Susan Ambasa was disinterred in the Luanda Shop area, Lurambi Constituency, after the DCI secured a court order to extract toxicology and DNA samples for analysis after it emerged that the samples of the two suspects had gone missing from a government laboratory in Kisumu.
The Standard established that the suspects' samples were extracted alongside those of the deceased and taken to the government laboratory in Kisumu for analysis.
