A 24-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly stabbing her 38-year-old husband to death in Kitengela, Kajiado county.
Police said the woman was nabbed after she was linked to the man’s death on Sunday night.
The man was reportedly pronounced dead by medics who received him at Kitengela Subcounty hospital within Kitengela Township, where he had been rushed by well-wishers for treatment.
The man, according to police, succumbed to knife stab wounds he sustained in his thigh, reportedly inflicted by the woman he has called his wife for the last two years.
Police recovered a blood-stained knife from the couple’s rented house, which is being held as evidence.
The matter was reported to the Kitengela police station, where the woman has since been detained awaiting to be presented in Kajiado Law Courts on Tuesday.
She would face a possible murder charge.
The body was removed to the same hospital’s mortuary, awaiting an autopsy.
The suspect, according to police, called her father-in-law at around 8.30 pm on Sunday and confessed to stabbing his son on the thigh with a kitchen knife.
The suspect, with the help of their neighbours, rushed the victim to the public hospital run and managed by the County Government of Kajiado, but later died from excessive bleeding.
The father-in-law claimed it wasn’t the first time his son sustained injuries inflicted on his body by the estranged wife.
The marriage was, according to him, tumultuous, with multiple incidents of his son allegedly being attacked by his wife, who is now the prime suspect in his murder.
“Their marriage was filled with fights. It’s not the first time. There are other incidents where the suspect stabbed the deceased on the chest using a knife, and another when she attacked him in my own home,” he said.
He said he was with his deceased son at a local church where they attended the service on Sunday.
They later parted ways at around 6 pm when the deceased went to his rented house at Orata area in Kitengela where he met his death.
“We also went to our home. We don’t know what caused the fight between the two leading to my son’s death,” he said.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations detectives attached to the Kitengela police station have launched investigations into the incident.
