Residents of Kamandura village in Kamirithu, Limuru Sub County are mourning the brutal killing of a 34-year-old mother of three.
The woman was attacked by her recently separated husband, Paul Waweru Waithera, while she was heading back to her children from a Chama meeting yesterday. The suspect is reported to have committed suicide after the incident.
The village elder reported the incident to the police after finding the victim’s badly mutilated body in a cornfield.
According to preliminary police investigations, the victim was returning from a Chama meeting held at Kamirithu Shopping Centre, accompanied by another woman, when her husband accosted them while armed with a crude weapon.
As he grabbed the mother of his children, the other woman managed to escape and alerted the village elder. Unfortunately, by the time a search party found the woman, she was already dead.
The suspect’s body was later found hanging from the roof of his house.
Crime Scene Investigators processed both scenes, and the bodies were taken to Tigoni Level IV Hospital mortuary for preservation.
