Police officer found dead in a car in Machakos ingested poison; Autopsy report
Police officer found dead in a car in Machakos ingested poison; Autopsy report
The police officer found dead inside his car in Mwala, Machakos county died of poison, a postmortem report has revealed.
Mwala deputy county commissioner David Tegutwa said a postmotem was conducted on the body on Wednesday.
“The police officer, according to the postmotem conducted on the body today, died of poison ingestion. Investigations are still ongoing to establish if it was poisoning or suicide,” Tegutwa told the Star by phone on Wednesday.
The constable was found dead inside a white Toyota probox that was packed along the Machakos – Kitui Road near Kikelenzu junction at Mumoni village in Mwala subcounty on Tuesday.
The matter was reported to police as a suspected suicide incident report.
Members of the public alerted traffic police officers who were on duty along the road after they spotted what they termed as a suspiciously parked vehicle at the said scene of incident.
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The traffic officers in turn informed their colleagues from Masii police station who, together with the Directorate of Criminal Investigations detectives attached to Mwala police station, responded to the scene.
They processed and photographed the scene before removing the body to the mourtuary. The vehicle believed to belong to the deceased was towed to police station.
The officers established that the body belongs to a 37-year-old constable. It was lying on the driver’s seat when it was discovered with foam oozing from his mouth.
Police said a bottle top believed to be from a Diazinon pesticide container was found inside the vehicle.
The officers also recovered various documents from the car which included the deceased’s certificate of appointment, national identification card, and trnsfer orders indicating that he was moved from Mukuyuni police station to Kikumini police station in April 2026.
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