It was supposed to be a brief visit to suspects in custody at Ruai police station but it has now turned into a criminal case for Christine Njoki Gitau.

Njoki, 18 showed up on Tuesday around 7pm at the station armed with a food carrier containing rice and beef for three suspects in custody. And as their routine, police officers on duty inspected the food.

To their shock, they found a pliers and shears buried beneath the food containers in what has now landed her in trouble, allegedly for trying to aid prisoners to escape.

She was arrested and placed in custody.

The three suspects in custody at the station are Emmanuel Bosire, Ismael Arisa and Brian Gatheru. The three men are in custody for allegedly running an anonymous TikTok account used to lure young women into meetings, after which the victims were gang-raped and robbed of their valuables. They were arrested on August 4.

In a miscellaneous application before the Makadara court, a detective from Ruai stated that the complainant M.K.M received a friend request from an application on Titok sometime in July and after chatting for several days with the person, they agreed to meet.

On July 31, 2026, the complainant and the friend agreed to meet at a popular resort in Utawala but when she arrived at the place around 9pm, the said person was not there.

It is alleged that the said friend informed her that he was using a taxi and had developed a puncture and was taking a motorbike to the meeting place.

After some minutes, it is stated that the said friend arrived and after meeting the complainant, he convinced her that they take a motorcycle to the place where the taxi had developed a problem saying that it was about a kilometer away.

Through a filed affidavit, the court learnt that the compliant declined saying that it was too cold and they should instead take a walk.

On the way, it is stated that she noticed that some people were trailing them while the friend was busy chatting on his phone. Shortly, M.K.M was hit on the face by hard object making her to lose consciousness.

The detective told the court that when she woke up hours later, she found herself surrounded by two men among them the person she met online.

It alleged that the suspects demanded her PIN and instructed her to call her relatives to send money or she be harmed. She was later gang-raped her after she had sent them Sh28,500.

The complaint was later rescued by good Samaritans and reported the case that led to the arrest of the three.

The court granted the investigating officer 21 days, stating that his probe includes carrying out DNA tests, recording statements, identification parade, retrieval of CCTV footages among others.