Kenyan Arsenal fan hangs self
NAIROBI, Wednesday - An Arsenal fan in football-mad Kenya hanged himself following his team’s 4-1 aggregate drubbing by arch-rivals Manchester United in the Champions League semi-final, police said.
NAIROBI, Wednesday - An Arsenal fan in football-mad Kenya hanged himself following his team’s 4-1 aggregate drubbing by arch-rivals Manchester United in the Champions League semi-final, police said.
Suleiman Alphonso Omondi, a 29-year-old Kenyan living in the capital Nairobi’s Embakasi neighbourhood, hanged himself in his Arsenal shirt late Tuesday after the match, police said.
“We were watching the match at Bamba 70 pub, and when Arsenal was defeated, Suleiman just walked out in protest and he was crying,†Calvin Otieno, one of his friends, told AFP.
“We didn’t know he was going to hang himself until this morning when we received the reports and came here to find his body at the balcony,†Otieno said outside the deceased’s home.
At half time, the bar attendants had to intervene after Omondi grabbed another patron by the neck after he taunted him that his team would not recover after the break.
“Tears flowed down his cheeks at half time but I patted him, telling him to remain strong because things could change before the final whistle,†said Timothy Kukali, a fellow Arsenal fan who knew him well.
When his body was found, it was still in the Red White T-shirt, similar to the ones worn by Arsenal’s footballers complete with the Fly Emirates logo.
Embakasi police commander David Bunei said his officers are investigating “a suicide.â€
“It’s still too early to make a conclusion but the information we have gathered is the deceased was an Arsenal fan. We can’t close the investigation at just that,†he added.
Suleiman Alphonso Omondi, a 29-year-old Kenyan living in the capital Nairobi’s Embakasi neighbourhood, hanged himself in his Arsenal shirt late Tuesday after the match, police said.
“We were watching the match at Bamba 70 pub, and when Arsenal was defeated, Suleiman just walked out in protest and he was crying,†Calvin Otieno, one of his friends, told AFP.
“We didn’t know he was going to hang himself until this morning when we received the reports and came here to find his body at the balcony,†Otieno said outside the deceased’s home.
At half time, the bar attendants had to intervene after Omondi grabbed another patron by the neck after he taunted him that his team would not recover after the break.
“Tears flowed down his cheeks at half time but I patted him, telling him to remain strong because things could change before the final whistle,†said Timothy Kukali, a fellow Arsenal fan who knew him well.
When his body was found, it was still in the Red White T-shirt, similar to the ones worn by Arsenal’s footballers complete with the Fly Emirates logo.
Embakasi police commander David Bunei said his officers are investigating “a suicide.â€
“It’s still too early to make a conclusion but the information we have gathered is the deceased was an Arsenal fan. We can’t close the investigation at just that,†he added.