The driver who was hired to transport Mary Wambui body has confessed his role in helping Judy Wangui dispose the body.
However, Michael Githae Mathenge has absorbed Joseph Kori (Wangui’s husband) from the blame saying Kori was nowhere near the crime scene. Recently police investigations showed Kori was not anywhere near the scene, basing it on Safaricom phone records and his car tracking device.
Ms Kamangara was killed in the house of her husband Joseph Kori Karue’s mistress, Judy Wangui Mungai, on Saturday January 26 under circumstances that are yet to be fully established.
Detectives initially went with the lead given by Ms Mungai that she and Mr Karue were at the scene of the murder. Later, detectives removed Mr Karue from the scene without exonerating him following their tracking of his phone signal and vehicle.
Mr Mathenge also appeared to remove Mr Karue from the scene during interrogation in custody after he was arrested on Monday.
Basing his narration on what Ms Mungai also apparently told him, Mr Mathenge said Ms Mungai killed Ms Kamangara by hitting her on the forehead with a pressure cooker.
This is in line with post mortem findings, seen by Nation, that Ms Kamangara’s was hit with a blunt object nine times before being suffocated.
This contrasts sharply with the version Ms Wangui earlier gave the police suggesting that Mr Karue hit his wife with the butt of his gun.
Detectives are treating Mr Mathenge’s testimony with suspicion as he also sought to extricate him from blame, saying Ms Mungai blackmailed him into helping her dispose of the body from her apartment at Fourways Junction Estate.
Ms Mungai had earlier told detectives that after Mr Karue killed his wife, he gave her Sh2 million to buy her silence.