A second post-mortem conducted on the body of 23-year-old interior designer Jeff Mwathi Ngugi established he died due to severe head and limb injuries.
The pathologist who did the autopsy indicated that it will however take longer to know whether he was sexually molested.
Chief Government Pathologist Johansen Oduor established that he had severe head injuries.
He also had fractures on the upper and lower limbs as well as on his neck.
He added it will take at least three months to know the results of toxicology.
“l have established that he had severe head injuries that almost raptured the skull,” said the pathologist.
He added they can’t determine what caused the death for now.
Detectives from the homicide department were part of the team that led the exhumation and fresh autopsy of the body which had been buried at his parents’ home in Likia, Njoro Sub-County, in Nakuru.
It was exhumed on Friday morning and later reburied.
The fresh post-mortem, coming hours after the body was exhumed, was also witnessed by family members.
After the team visited the scene for reconstruction and forensic analysis they found signs of a struggle inside Mugithi musician Lawrence Njuguna alias DJ Fatxo’s house.
The investigators, in ruling out suicide, believe that Jeff was murdered before he was thrown off to cover up and make it look like suicide.
Initially, it was recorded that Jeff jumped off from the window of the bedroom, but that was ruled out as an adult can’t fit into the tight window frames of the window.
Detectives said they are now progressing to the second phase of the investigations where several persons of interest will be interrogated and appropriate recommendations made to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP).
The sleuths said that the persons of interest to be interrogated in the next phase will include all the five persons who were at DJ Fatxo’s house when the incident happened.
Also to be questioned, according to DCI, are the police officers who handled the case first.
Fatxo, who termed Jeff as his good friend, has since denied involvement in his death and said he will cooperate with investigators.
He told the Media on March 12 that he was the one who reported to the police about Jeff’s disappearance on the morning he died.
This was after he left in the company of three ladies but returned hours later but did not find Jeff in the house.