03/10/2026
Family demands answers after teenager dies in Kericho prison
A 19-year-old woman has died while in remand custody at Kericho Annex Prison, triggering questions over how she accessed a bedsheet allegedly used in the incident and why her family learnt of her death nearly 10 hours after she was found.
Brenda Chemutai was reportedly discovered hanging inside the facility at about 9am on Friday.
But her relatives say they were not informed until around 7pm, by which time her body had already been removed from the prison and taken to the Kericho County Hospital Mortuary.
The delay has deepened the family's concerns over how the incident was handled and whether prison and police authorities followed the required procedures after Chemutai was found.
