Nairobi, Feb. 12 -- Detectives have revealed why they arrested and locked up a Nairobi-based lawyer for days in connection with the daring escape of murder suspect Kevin Kang'ethe from Muthaiga Police Station.

Ms Beatrice Ng'ethe was released on Sunday evening after spending two days in a cell at Pangani Police Station following her arrest on Friday.

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) picked her up from her house in Kiambu County on Friday morning as she prepared breakfast.

Officers looking into the case on Sunday intimated that Ms Ng'ethe, who is Mr Kang'ethe's cousin, became a person of interest after phone records revealed that she was in communication with the fugitive days before he strolled out of Mu...