A man was given a forty-year prison sentence by a court in Eldoret, the county capital of Uasin Gishu in Kenya's Rift Valley, for using an axe to kill his fiancée in 2019.
A 40-year-old man who killed his fiancée with an axe after accusing her of "cheating"
Before killing Ivy Wangeci with an axe, Naftali Kinuthia, the now-convicted man, had accused her of cheating on him with another guy. The dead was cruelly assassinated by Kinuthia while she was a first-year medical student at Moi University in Kenya.
The court's chief justice, Reuben Githinji, ruled that Kinuthia had purchased an axe with the express purpose of planning Wangeci's murder. The judge stressed that the prosecution's evidence clearly showed Kinuthia killed his alleged lover in broad daylight with the deliberate aim to end her life tragically.
In addition, the judge rejected the accused's accusations that he had a sexual relationship with the dead, stating that there was insufficient proof to back up these allegations.Justice Githinji is quoted on TUKO.co.ke as stating, "Text messages submitted did not prove that the accused was in a relationship, and he did not also provide any evidence of a sexual relationship."
The judge made his decision virtually as the prisoner, who was being held at the Eldoret GK facility, watched the proceedings from a distance. In a related development, 45-year-old farmer Abubakari Numburu was sentenced to five years in prison for threatening to kill the District Chief Executive of Chereponi in the North East Region over the phone. After entering a guilty plea, the Northern Region's Yendi Circuit court found that his actions violated section 75 of the Criminal Offences Act 1960, Act 29. As a result, he was placed in jail.
The prosecution, headed by D/C/Inspector Nicodemus York, described in detail how, on November 20, 2023, Numburu, a farmer in Kwame Nansoni, had threatened Nashiru Zuwera Muda, saying, "I will kill you if you dare enter Chereponi."The horrified complainant was unwilling to wait for the now-convicted man to take concrete steps to support his death threat. He quickly notified Chereponi police of the situation, and they helped by National Security to capture Numburu.
As a result of Numburu's admission of guilt during the questioning and his caution statement, Judge H/H Justice Francis Ayamwuni Asobayire sentenced him to five years in jail. Judge Ayamwuni Asobayire based Numburu's 5-year jail sentence on Section 75 of Act 29, which reads, "Whoever threatens any other person with death, with the intent to put that person in fear of death, is guilty of a second-degree felony."This narrative emphasizes the need of upholding public safety and order by serving as a warning about the legal ramifications of uttering threats with the intention of inciting fear.
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