A woman charged with the murder of her husband has told the court that she drank beer with her husband moments before he died.
Agnes Mutheu (pictured) who is in her late 20s has been in custody since 2013 when she was accused of stubbing her husband Anthony Hanjari to death with a kitchen knife.
Mutheu who comes from Frere town in Kisauni told high court judge Martin Muya that her husband of four years attacked her while she was cooking outside their house.
“My husband was drunk. He called me gay, whore and went on to throw out my clothes. He beat me up, but before I could even react, he had rushed back into the house, quickly. I never touched him,” claims Mutheu.
Mutheu told the court that it was already dark and she therefore could not tell what her husband was carrying in his hand.
The suspect told the court that Hanjari’s brother, Benjamin, who had paid them a visit, rushed out of the house demanding to know what the suspect had done to his brother who was lying unconscious on the floor bleeding profusely.
“I loved my husband too much to harm him. In fact I was used to his drunken ways, where he would hurl abuses at me. I swear I never used that knife, never held it and do not know how it came to harm him,” claimed Mutheu.
The suspect has maintained that together with her husband, they went out to buy meat at a nearby butchery at around 6pm on December 16, 2013. She claims that they decided to have beer at a local pub.
On returning home, she told the court, her husband started accused her of being a spendthrift.
“We went out again at 8pm to buy vegetables, then came back. I took my pot and went outside to cook because our house is a tiny single room,” said Mutheu.
She told the court that right after the incident, Benjamin and the local elder took her bleeding husband to hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Mutheu who remained in the house as the husband was taken to hospital was arrested by the local elder a few hours after her husband passed on.
She was then taken to Nyali Police station where she was charged with murder.
Her lawyer Caroline Odhiang said that the hubby had stabbed himself during the scuffle and died due to excessive bleeding.
According to the lawyer, a post-mortem report from the hospital indicated that Mutheu’s husband died due to haemorrhage from a thigh wound.
“She is innocent as we will prove, the husband had a thigh wound and never died from stabbing, but from excessive bleeding,” said Odhiang.
Mutheu is scheduled to appear in court for hearing on December 10, 2015.
