Horrific death

Despite leading a lavish lifestyle, slain Rongo University student Sharon Otieno had difficulty paying fees.However , the fee challenge could not be attributed to Sharon deferring studies, considering that she was pregnant by the time she was entering her second year. 

Sharon could have been raped before she was brutally murdered, police have said.An officer involved in the investigation said that used condoms were found at the scene of the pregnant student's murder. "We have found four used condoms and a pool of blood at the scene, said the officer .The 26 year old's body was found in a thicket near Wire Forest , about 50 metres from the Oyugis-Kisumu road, on Monday night after she was kidnapped in Migori county alongside Nation media journalist. Police said they were hot on the trail of three people suspected to have been involved in the kidnapping and murder of the student .

The vehicle the suspects were said to have used was also missing .The only person police are holding is Michael Oyamo, Migori Governor Okoth Obado's personal assistant .Detectives have established that there had been communication between Mr.Oyamo , the deceased and other persons who have not yet been arrested. The manner in which blood splattered on guava leaves and grass , suggested there was a struggle as Sharon was killed. 

At the Rachuonyo hospital in Homabay  mortuary, attendants told The standard newspaper reporters that Sharon's body was "in bad shape" when police brought it in.