The suspect within the homicide of a Brockton behavioral well being nurse who’s physique was left at Logan airport has escaped police custody in Kenya weeks earlier than he was as a consequence of be extradited to the U.S., Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden stated Thursday.
“We have been informed by federal officials that Kevin Kangethe has escaped from police custody in Kenya,” Hayden stated. “It is our hope that Kenyan law enforcement will do their utmost to recapture Kangethe so that we can continue seeking justice for Margaret Mbitu and her family.”
Margaret Mbitu, a 31-year-old nurse on the BAMSI facility in Brockton, was discovered useless in a automotive within the central storage at Logan airport round 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 1.
State Police shortly recognized Kangethe, 40, of Lowell, as a suspect in her dying. Kangethe was recognized to Mbitu, police stated, and had already boarded a flight to Kenya.
Kenyan authorities, working with police within the U.S., discovered and arrested Kangethe in late January. His extradition again to Boston was set for late February, Hayden stated beforehand.
Kangethe was reportedly held in Muthaiga Police Station in Nairobi, and police stated he was assembly with a lawyer when he slipped out and jumped on a matatu, a privately owned minibus used as share taxis in Kenya, the Kenya-based information outlet Nation.Africa reported.
Mbitu labored as a per diem nurse a BAMSI, a company that works with folks with disabilities, psychological well being and dependancy challenges.
A spokesperson for the corporate known as Mbitu “warm, caring and loved by everyone she worked with, both staff and the people she cared for in our group homes,” following her dying.
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