During a court hearing, Police have told Justice Abigail Mshilla how an Utalii college student Ms Wambui together with her mother Rosemary Nyawira planned the murder of Mr Okumu on the night of February 3 and 4, 2018 in a “cold and calculated fashion” and they deserved to be punished for it.
Prosecutors asked for the highest possible sentence, for “the most ruthless, cruel, inhumane, heartless and deliberate” acts against former spouse the college students former spouse.
Days before his death occurred, while staying in his girlfriends house
in Zimmerman , witnesses reveal that he had been attacked and injured by a group of thugs that stormed Ms Wambui’s house.
“On February 1, 2018 Dennis came to the Githurai bus stage wearing a hoodie because he had a head injury. He told us he had been attacked by thugs at his girlfriend’s house in Zimmerman. He said he was hit on the head with a log of wood and fell unconscious,” testified Mr Otieno.
Okumu was a Githurai tout.
Two days later after the attack, the deceased is alleged to have been called by his lover seeking a reconciliation meeting to solve outstanding issues involving their love relationship.
A police detective investigating the case , Corporal Eliud Odhiambo, testified that Ms Wambui(college student) lured her lover(Mr Okumu), with whom she had sired a child, to her mother’s rural home in Karatina with the intention of “disciplining him” for physically abusing her.
But since Dennis Okumu had financial constraints,his friends at the bus stage raised Sh500 to enable him travel to meet his wife.
Mr Otieno the witness said Dennis, unaware of the set-up, travelled alongside his wife to Karatina Nyeri to have the reconciliation exercise presided by his mother-in-law.
However, after the ‘dicipline’, Ms Wambui returned to the City alone and started asking whereabouts of the deceased, as she suggested that they had not travelled together to her rural home.
“A search for Dennis started and we later got reports that the body had been found at Karatina Hospital mortuary. He had five stab wounds, his eyes were gorged out and some of his front teeth were missing,” said the witness.
How the cold murder occurred
According to detectives investigating the case, The family had hired five assailants to discipline the deceased but it turned tragic and they ended up killing him,” said Mr Odhiambo in his evidence while being cross-examined by State Counsel Emma Gicheha.
“The mother, who works at a Karatina hospital, confessed to the crime. The deceased had taken supper at his in-laws’ home and was killed while being escorted to where he was to sleep,” said Mr Odhiambo.
After killing the 23-year-old tout, the detective said, mother and daughter paid Mr Muriuki, a boda boda operator, Sh3,000 to dump the body in Kirimara.
The body which had five stab wounds in the neck, his eyes had been gouged out and some of his front teeth were missing, was found dumped at Kirimara in Mathira East sub-county.
Mr Odhiambo testified that police were tipped off by one of the people hired to “discipline” Mr Okumu, leading to the arrest of the suspects. The case will be heard on June 4.
The slain tout’s workmate, Mr George Otieno, testified that the couple was living in Zimmerman Estate but Dennis had co-rented a separate house with a friend in Githurai.