How would you react if you caught your husband “red-handed” with his girlfriend?
A Meru County woman who was slashed on the arm is lucky to have survived a possible beheading by a woman claiming to be the wife of the husband she was found sleeping with him.
The woman aged 20 years is alleged to have been found red-handed in bed with the man who is married to the assailant.
The woman is said to have been tipped off and immediately took a boda-boda straight to the location where the two were allegedly having an undisturbed session.
The assailant arrived at the scene only to find her husband in bed with another woman, armed with a sword as is the norm with Amerus, she aimed for the neck and swung the sword but the woman defended herself and was slashed on the shoulder and ejected from the house situated near the Meru Teachers Training College.
The victim claimed that her attacker had aimed at her neck but missed it.
The attacker, who claimed that her husband had abandoned her, confiscated her victim’s clothes and mobile phone saying that she would use the items as an exhibit.
Mr Stephen Kimathi, a lorry driver who rescued the victim said: “I found the naked woman bleeding profusely as she was pursued by her attacker.”
Area residents, most of them boda-boda riders, taunted the injured woman and prevented people from assisting her.
Ms Mercy Julius, a resident of the area, said the woman, who was later rescued and taken to hospital, could have been a college student.
“The injured woman was wailing as the crowd cheered on the assailant who attempted to slash her again. People were just watching without helping, the woman deserves justice,” said Ms Julius.
The young woman told the crowd that she did not know that the man was married.