By Evelyn Kwamboka

A man took to the witness box to testify against his wife, who is accused of killing his son from a past marriage.

Mr Erick Bidali, who is a prosecution witness, was testifying in the case against Ms Redempta Simani who he married after parting ways with the boy’s mother.

Simani is charged that on September 22, she murdered Morgan M Mayuku in Nairobi’s Kangemi area.

Bidali told the court he left his three-year-old son with Simani to go look for a job in Ngong.

"The child was not sick when I left him in her company," he told Lady Justice Jessie Lesiit.

He told the court when he returned eight days later to his home in Kangemi, he found the door to his house open but there was nobody inside.

He said he went round looking for the wife and toddler for days, only to be told by a woman that the wife had gotten a job in Ngara Estate.

The following day, the woman arrived in the company of Bidali’s wife at the bus stage.

"I asked Redempta where the child was and she said she had informed the chief everything about the boy," he said.

A confirmation at the chief’s office proved the woman wrong, prompting Administration Policemen on duty to question her further.

The officers, he said, took her inside one of the offices and after a few minutes, one of them came outside.

"He told us things were not good. He said Redempta had informed them the boy had died," he said.

Bidali later found the boy’s body at the City Mortuary.

Hearing continues on Wednesday.