Man kills wife, chops off her head after quarrel

By Antony Gitonga

NAIVASHA, KENYA: A 50- year-old man went berserk in Kinangop area Nyandarua County and decapitated his wife of twenty years following a domestic quarrel.

The trader stabbed his wife to death before chopping of her head.

Police say he hid the body in the house in Ndunyu Njeru trading center before the murder was discovered. 

When cornered, the father of one tried to commit suicide at a Naivasha lodging but he was rushed to hospital and later arrested.

According to neighbors, trouble started on Thursday last week when the man arrived from Nairobi where he operates a night club.

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The witness said that the man who had earlier fallen out with the wife demanded that she joins him in his business but she declined. 

The man is said to have summoned his wife from a burial she was attending on Thursday and that was the last time she was seen.

Confirming the incident, Nyandarua South OCPD Samson Munyao said the body was discovered by the couple’s daughter.

“The body had several knife wounds and the head had been completely severed at the neck,” he said on phone. 

Munyao said the daughter traveled from Murang’a where she is married after failing to reach the mother on phone.

“The door was locked from the outside and on checking through the window she spotted the lifeless body lying on bed and called on the police,” he said.