Nairobi murder and why East African borders no longer safe havens for fugitives
From right: Police Constable Collins Kiplangat Bett, Pius Muiru Mbugua and Samuel Karanja Gathoni in court. They were arrested in Uganda on suspicion of shooting killing Dr Victoria Mutiso in Nairobi.
For Collins Kiplagat Bett and Pius Mbugua, crossing the Kenya-Uganda border may have seemed a useful way to put distance between themselves and a murder investigation in Nairobi. But the arrests that followed showed how much harder it has become for criminal suspects to hide in a neighbouring East African state.
