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Edmond Ruto at the Nakuru Law Courts on March 2, 2018. He is accused of killing Cynthia Chelang’at a fourth-year student at Egerton University
A 28-year-old man has confessed to killing his university student lover four years ago, saying he did it out of anger.
[COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]Mr Edmond Ruto, who pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter in a plea bargain agreement, claimed he was overwhelmed with fury when he brutally hacked to death his 21-year-old girlfriend Cynthia Chelang’at on February 19, 2018.
Ms Chelang’at was a third-year agriculture student at Egerton University, while Mr Ruto was in his fourth year studying economics and statistics at the same school.
When he appeared in court on February 21, 2018, Mr Ruto denied the charge of murder and was released on bond.
But he later reached a plea bargain deal with prosecutors and confessed to killing the woman by stabbing her in the neck and stomach before attempting to take his own life.
In his mitigation before Nakuru Presiding Judge Joel Ngugi, he said he regretted his actions, adding that the death had brought great pain to his and Ms Chelang’at’s family.
“It pains me to imagine that I am the cause of her death. I regret … allowing my anger [to] get the best of me and I am sorry to the family,” said Mr Ruto.
Pleading for a lenient non-custodial sentence, Mr Ruto claimed he was a new man and had undergone anger management training, and psychiatric and mental health treatment during his time in remand at the Nakuru GK Prison.