Masten Wanjala, the self-confessed serial child killer has been lynched by mob in his rural home in Mukhweya village, Bungoma County.
This comes just days after the suspected killer escaped from Jogoo Road Police Station in Nairobi on a day he was to be presented in court.
According to police reports, Wanjala was identified after he ironically joined a football match in the area and played with locals in Bungoma.
Some of those who identified him as a wanted man later trailed him to his home where they lynched him.
Area Assistant County Commissioner Cornelius Nyaribai confirmed the suspect was flushed from their house and lynched by a mob.
Wanjala, 25, escaped from Jogoo Road police station cells on Wednesday morning as remandees and others were being separated from the general population.
According to Bungoma head of DCI Joseph Ondoro, the locals had successfully identified the lynched man as Wanjala.
He has led police to crime scenes, reenacted them, made voice recordings and showed investigators his scrapbook detailing the murders.
Police said they had so far linked him to as many as 14 murder murders in Nairobi, Machakos and Western Kenya. He had confessed to killing 12 children when he was arrested in July this year in Kajiado.
Videos capturing the incident showed him being removed by a mob from a house and being beaten with clubs and stones.
Following his escape from custody, senior police officers visited the station to understand what happened.
Police officers Phillip Mbithi, Boniface Kamakia Mutuma and Precious Mwinzi arraigned on Thursday said they had no lights the night Wanjala escaped.
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