PHOTO of LINET NKATHA, the 20-year-old college student who was killed by her 36-year-old lover before committing suicide

LINET NKATHA, the 20-year-old college student who was killed by her 36-year-old lover before committing suicide

Detectives in Juja, Kiambu County, are looking into a possible murder-suicide involving a 20-year-old female college student and a 36-year-old man at the Witeithie Estate.

According to Juja Deputy County Commissioner (DCC) Daniel Ndege, the victim, Linet Nkatha, a student at TIBs College in Thika, was found strangled.

Her lover was later found hanging from the ceiling of the same house with a manila rope.

Daniel Mwangi, a resident of Witeithie near the Tel Aviv building where the incident occurred, claims he was awakened by screaming from a neighboring property.

He later learned that a man had killed a woman before taking his own life.

Linet's lover left a handwritten note confessing to the murder and demanding that detectives notify his mother of his death.

According to preliminary investigations, the two were in a love relationship and may have had a fight that turned deadly.