Detectives have hinted that Judy Wangui Mungai, a woman believed to be the mistress of Joseph Kori whose wife was murdered in cold blood in Nairobi two weeks ago will be charged with murder.
Ms Wangui will be arraigned on Wednesday alongside car hire businessman Michael Githae Mathenge. Mathenge has already implicated himself when he confessed his role in the killing of Ms Mary Wambui, the wife of Mr Joseph Kori.
If convicted, they face the death penalty.
Mr Mathenge, a resident of Ruaka, runs a car hire business in the city centre.
He is said to have told the police that he never participated in the murder of Ms Wambui as Ms Mungai, whom he has known for two years, called him to her house when Ms Wambui was already dead.
He told police he helped Ms Mungai to remove Ms Wambui’s body from Ms Mungai’s house at Fourways Junction on Kiambu Road to Mugutha in Juja a few minutes past midnight.
Mr Mathenge told the police Ms Mungai had earlier in the day called him promising him a job later that night.
When he arrived at Fourways, he told police, he declined to give her a helping hand in disposing of the body. He said she blackmailed him, threatening to call security on him and implicate him in the murder. He also said he was not paid for the job.
Detectives, however, are questioning why he never drove off once they left the estate since, according to him, Ms Mungai carried the body in Ms Wambui’s car while he followed closely behind her driving a Toyota Noah.
As detectives firm up the case against Ms Mungai and Mr Mathenge, they are waiting for a forensic report on the phone records of the victim’s husband, Mr Kori.
