Domestic violence ha become an everyday song. Jealous has been the great source of these violence. Murder in marriages has become no big deal. As it is in the case of Lucy Nyaguthii who killed her husband and reported to the police that he was missing.
Samuel Karanja was a worker at the Kiambu water department and was attached to Gatundu subcounty.
Gatundu deputy police boss George Kipkoros says police were informed that a body had been found at Ngubuiri village in Kirangari location. Karanja’s wife Lucy Nyaguthii, had earlier reported her husband missing at Gatundu police station.
Nyaguthii narrates that Karanja came home at about 9pm on Sunday but went out saying he was going to pay a debt before returning accompanied by Paul Maina .A fight then ensued and the duo went out together. Maina is said to have cohabited with Nyaguthii when she briefly separated from her husband of nine years further adding that Karanja did not return home and that she decided to report him missing after taking their two children to school.
Police found blood stains on the bed used by the couple and also discovered Karanja’s clothes inside a toilet .
His wife insisted the murder did not take place in their compound but police found burned items in a suspected cover up bid. Gatundu senior chief, Joseph Njiraiini said the couple had marital differences adding that he had often intervened to save the marriage.
The deputy police boss says Karanja’s body had visible injuries inflicted by a blunt object and preliminary investigations showed that Karanja was murdered in his house and the body dumped in a nearby plot. His wife is detained at Gatundu police station to help in investigations. Neighbors have said that the usually noisy home was quiet on Sunday night though they heard some commotion. The body was taken to Gatundu Level 5 Hospital Mortuary awaiting postmortem.