The body of a woman found dead in boyfriend’s house in Likoni, Mombasa has been identified as 21-year-old Fedelis Chepchumba.
According to her family Chepchumba traveled to Mombasa from their rural home in Kuresoi, Nakuru county on December last year after one of her friends secured her a job in a supermarket.
Chepchumba’s mutilated body was discovered in the man’s house on Saturday 25, 2026 at Mtaa wa Maka area three days after she was reported missing at work.
Neighbors who attended the scene said the suspect whom they identified as Austine Safu worked in one of the bakeries in Mombasa town and that the two had stayed together for about eight months.
He allegedly escaped from the scene after the incident, according to the local residents.
Police visited the house and found it locked from the outside before forcing it open. Inside, they discovered Chepchumba’s lifeless body lying on the bed with visible injuries on the face and neck
The body was moved to the Coast General Hospital mortuary pending an autopsy and other procedures
According to the deceased’s elder brother, Isaac Kipkoech Lang’at, a postmortem examination conducted today showed Chepchumba was manually strangled to death.
Chepchumba was a graduate from Sereini College in Nakuru where she undertook a hospitality course.
The aggrieved family is now demanding swift justice following Chepchumba’s brutal murder