A 19-year-old woman is being held at Kiamashiri Police Station in Kirinyaga county after she allegedly killed her 25-year-old lover, Evans Kariuki.
The incident happened at Nguka in Mwea Sub-county.
According to John Kimani, the father of the deceased who also revealed their ages, his son was stabbed to death after he forcefully got into his girlfriend’s house.
He said his son got into the house through the window after the girl offered a blanket for him to sleep outside over an argument.
“He went and called his girlfriend to open the door for him. The girl refused to open it but gave him a blanket through the window and told him to sleep outside.
“Kariuki got in through the window. They both argued before his girlfriend picked a knife and stabbed him,” Kimani explained.
Area residents led by Francis Kimagwa blamed the incident on rampant drug abuse among the youths in the region.
Another one…police woman shoots husband and commits suicide…
Monday, January 24, 2021 – A female police officer attached to Kiminini police station shot her husband and then turned the gun on herself after a domestic squabble on Sunday morning.
The rogue cop, identified as Dorcas Chebet, went into their house armed with a gun and confronted her husband, who is also a police officer.
She then locked the door from inside and shot him dead, before turning the gun on herself.
Neigbours alerted police after hearing gunshots.
Police broke the door and found them lying in a pool of blood.
Homicide detectives who checked their last phone conversations established that Chebet had been accused by her husband of infidelity.
The sleuths also established that she had threatened to commit suicide after her husband confronted her with infidelity allegations.