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Police said her lover Wafula picked her up in her Liberty Gardens apartment in South B.


A report on the postmortem conducted on the body of Kenyatta University Student June Jerop has revealed what caused her death.  

The report seen by Nairobi Leo indicates that Jerop died of severe bleeding as a result of a stabbing in the chest that also raptured her heart.  

June was an accountant at the National Industrial Training Authority (NITA) and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) student at Kenyatta University.  

On the day, March 18, she went missing, June is said to have told her friends that she was going on a date only for her body to be found dumped at Jamhuri Estate two days later. 

Jerop’s lover Jessie Wafula is among three people in police custody. Others are Allan Wafula and Timothy Masika. 

The three were arrested on March 24, six days after they Jerop went missing.  

June Jerop Kangongo. PHOTO | COURTESY

Police said Wafula picked up the deceased in her Liberty Gardens apartment in South B.

They were later captured on CCTV cameras in Imara Daima, and then in the Mlolongo. From there the deceased is said to have gone missing.

The same day Jerop is reported to have been murdered, the main suspect Wafula travelled to Bungoma County where he left his car and returned to Nairobi via a bus. He was arrested when he arrived in Nairobi.

The suspects were arraigned on March 27 during which police sought miscellaneous applications to detain them for 14 days to conclude the probe.

A memorial service of the late Jerop was on Thursday held at the Montezuma Monalisa in Nairobi.

She will be buried Saturday, April 8, at their Uasin Gishu County home.