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Man recounts painful murder of wife and baby in Muhoroni

Jackline Auma when she was arraigned in a Kisumu Court on September 25, 2018 over her alleged involvement in the killing of her employer and baby in Muhoroni in June 2018. [File, Standard]

A medic whose wife was allegedly killed by a help told court how he desperately tried to reach his wife before learning she had been killed.

Evans Okoth told Justice Fred Ochieng’ he became suspicious but hoped both wife and baby were okay. “The next day I went to check on her only to find my wife lying on the floor with a nylon rope on her neck,” an emotional Okoth said.

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