Autopsy Reveals How University Student Sharon Otieno, Fetus were Killed

Murdered Rongo University student Sharon Otieno was stabbed several times on the stomach, neck and back, an autopsy report has revealed. 

Speaking on Friday evening after conducting the post-mortem examination at Rachuonyo Level 4 Hospital in Oyugis, Government Pathologist Johansen Oduor said Sharon died from excessive bleeding.

The pathologist further said that the stabs on the stomach reached her womb killing the fetus. Sharon was seven months pregnant at the time of her murder.

“She was stabbed three times on the neck, four times on the back and on the left side of the abdomen,” Oduor told reporters moments after concluding the autopsy adding that there were indications that she might have been raped.

“She also had many bruises which shows that there was struggle and strangulation. The stab on her abdomen pierced through to the baby as well.”

Sharon's body was retrieved from a bush near Kopedo Forest in Homa Bay County on Wednesday morning, two days after she was abducted from a hotel in Rongo town.

She was kidnapped alongside Daily Nation journalist Barack Oduor who managed to escape by jumping off the moving vehicle a few kilometers from the hotel. Sharon had reportedly met the journalist at the hotel to share her story on how Migori Governor Okoth Obado had allegedly impregnated and abandoned her. 

So far, DNA samples have been extracted from one of the main suspects Michael Oyamo, the PA to Migori Governor Okoth Obado.

Governor Obado has since distanced himself from the abduction and murder of the 26-year-old.