Pastor from hell killed girl and ran across borders

Pastor Charles Nyachwara before the Kitale High Court where he was sentenced to 25 years in jail for the murder of a 17-year-old girl who was pregnant with triplets on July 7, 2011. [Osinde Obare, Standard]

For Pastor Charles Nyachwara, nothing could stand in the way of a name and reputation he had carefully molded within the community he served and preached to every Sunday and other days in between. When push came to shove, no sin was big enough for him.

Not even the sixth commandment-which says ''do not kill''. And on July 7, 2011, he says, he broke this commandment by stabbing his lover several times before fleeing from the crime scene. Nyachwara, a self-confessed killer, was willing to go to any lengths to keep his name on the pedestal on which the church and his congregation had placed him.