Nairobi, March 4 -- The man being held by police in connection with the death of a 20-year-old college student, Joan Mbula Nzomo, at Thome estate in Kasarani on Saturday had spent five hours in the same room with another unidentified woman.

He then took in Mbula, a student at the Nairobi Aviation College, who died in mysterious circumstances a few hours later.

The Nation has established that the man, Lawrence Gitonga, 33, had booked the short-term apartment on Friday and at 6.30pm, he and another woman entered the room where they spent most of the evening. The mysterious woman left at 11pm.

Mr Gitonga left shortly afterwards and returned to the same room with Mbula at 3am.

Unlike the first woman, Mbula did not leave the room through t...