A serial killer who murdered at least 10 children in Kenya has been beaten to death by a mob after escaping from a police station.
Masten Wanjala began his killing spree aged 15 and posed as a football coach in Nairobi to trick victims.The country’s directorate of criminal investigations said ‘bloodthirsty vampire’ Wanjala, 20, ‘single-handedly massacred his victims in the most callous manner, sometimes through sucking blood from their veins before executing them’.Wanjala then dumped their bodies in dense bushes in Lower Kabete, or sometimes in sewers.
The case against Wanjala appeared a slam dunk and police vowed to deliver justice for families of the dead children. They said he had already confessed to the murders, but before it came to court he ‘mysteriously disappeared’ during the morning roll call.Special service agents were sent to re-arrest the ‘beast’ but he was killed near his home in Bungoma county on Thursday, a day after escaping from police cells.
Authorities said Wanjala was identified after he played with locals in a football match. Some then trailed him and beat him to death.Masten Wanjala in the back of a police truck after his arrest in July Most of his victims were boys aged 12-13 and the majority of killings took place in the capital Nairobi, but others were killed in eastern and western parts of Kenya.
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