A 27-year-old man in Kakamega allegedly murdered his on Friday and went to a local police station claiming she committed suicide.
Edwin Okoth Owino went to the Musanda Police Station at 6am and told officers that he woke up to find his wife dead at the living room where he had left her the previous night, police said.
However, according to the police officers, the story was suspicious. They went on to accompany him to his house where they found the body of the 24-year-old woman on the couch with signs that indicated she was assaulted.
The officers who questioned him said the suspect insisted insisted he was not responsible for the death, but a girl who had managed to escape during the beating sold him out.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said, “Shockingly, a thoroughly beaten-up body of his wife laid lifeless at the sitting room, where the suspect had stage-managed a suicide, suggesting she had taken poison. As police probed further into the suspect’s inconsistencies, a 16-year-old girl who survived the man’s brutality by a whisker last night emerged from the crowd that had since formed up, shedding light on the ordeal.”
According to the girl, the man beat up his wife after discovering a romantic message on her phone from a man.
The DCI added, “Sadly, a text message that popped up from a strange number, which Okoth interpreted to be from a secret lover had cost the dear life of the victim.”
Furthermore, it is believed The suspect is also said to have attacked his neighbour, who is supposedly the wife’s friend. The neighbor shed more light on the events that resulted in he death, leading to the man's arrest.
The DCI stated that when the suspect saw the message on his wife’s phone at around 10.30pm, he proceeded to call the girl, a neighbor who he believed was his wife’s best friend, and attacked the two with a piece of wood. It is unclear how the girl was involved in the alleged cheating.
The suspect is in police custody awaiting arraignment in court on Monday.
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