Homicide detectives investigating the murder of Mildred Otieno have made a visit to the crime scene where Ms Odira’s body was found in search of clues pertaining to her death. The visit comes after detectives learned that the taxi driver whom the woman used may not have been involved in her murder as new details emerged.
Ms Odira, 32, a switchboard operator with Foresight Company but based at Nation Centre, left her Kariobangi South home at 4am, January 29.
“She was not well. She had been diagnosed with diabetes and hypertension just two days earlier, so she wanted to go to hospital. When she left the house, the security guards at the court’s gate helped her hail a taxi to take her to Ruaraka Uhai Neema Hospital,” said her sister, Ms Maureen Anyango.
Mr Ochieng’ who had picked up Ms Odira told the police that he had, indeed, taken Ms Odira to Uhai Neema Hospital in Ruaraka, waited for her for an hour and 20 minutes, and then left.
Detectives then demanded CCTV footage from the hospital when the hospital said it had not received a patient called Mildred Odira. The CCTV footage from exterior cameras showed the taxi, a black Mazda Carol, arrive at 4.33am, make a U-turn in the hospital compound and leave without dropping off anyone.
Contrary to previous reports that she did not alight from the taxi, footage extracted from cameras outside the hospital showed that she got out outside the gate before the driver went through the gate and made a U-turn.
Detectives have however not exonerated the driver, Davis Ochieng’, who is still in custody, as they are yet to receive results from the Government Chemist to ascertain whether Ms Odira was raped before she was killed.