Shock and horror as gang clobbers Murang'a lovers to death

Bishop James Maina of African independent pentecostal church points at a hole through which the gang had intended to enter the late Joseph Munyiri 68, who was murdered alongside her lover Jane Wambui 35, three roomed house in Kiru village of Kigumo-ini in Muranga county, March 24, 2017, his estranged wife Rose Wanjiru was later arrested in Ol-Kalau in Nyandarua as the prime suspect following threats she had constantly issued to Munyiri. PHOTO: MOSE SAMMY/STANDARD

A couple's blossoming relationship came to a tragic end when they were murdered in the man's house at Kagumo-ini village in Mathioya, Murang'a County.

Joseph Munyiri and Jane Wambui had just shared a meal of chapati and retired to bed when a gang, armed with crude weapons, broke into their home on Friday night and bludgeoned them to death.