Best man held as detectives probe man’s brutal death

On September 3 around noon, Mr Bernard Kariuki, a water engineer, walked out of a client’s home in Juja, Kiambu County, to buy spare parts to fix a broken borehole. He was to meet his wife and son soon after. But that was the last time Kariuki, 48, was seen alive. 

His mutilated body would be found at a coffee plantation a week later. His killers had poured acid on his face and stabbed him in the neck. A postmortem confirmed the assailants also broke his skull.