NAIROBI
\nKenyan prosecutors said Monday they extradited a man accused of murdering his girlfriend in the United States in a case that made headlines after he escaped police custody in Nairobi.
\nKevin Kang\u2019ethe was the subject of a three-month international manhunt after he fled the United States for his native Kenya following the killing of Margaret Mbitu, who was found stabbed to death in a carpark at Boston\u2019s Logan airport in November.
\nHe was arrested in Kenya in January, but after just one week in detention Kang\u2019ethe slipped out of a holding cell, to the deep embarrassment of the Kenyan police.
\nHe was recaptured in February while hiding out at a relative\u2019s home on the outskirts of Nairobi.
\nThe Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) said in a statement that Kang\u2019ethe had left Kenya on Sunday and would face a murder charge at a court in Boston on Tuesday.
\nDirector of Public Prosecutions Renson Ingonga had assured FBI director Christopher Wray during talks in Nairobi in June that his office was \u201ckeen to ensure justice involving this case is done in an expeditious manner,\u201d the statement said.
\nFour police officers, two relatives and a lawyer were arrested in connection with Kang\u2019ethe\u2019s jailbreak.
\nJust last month, in another humiliating incident for Kenyan police, a suspected serial killer accused of murdering and dismembering dozens of women escaped from another Nairobi police station.
\nPolice launched a major manhunt after Collins Jumaisi escaped along with 12 Eritrean detainees on August 20 but he has yet to be found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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