Shock as man butchers wife, cooks her body parts

Residents of Bosansa village in Nyacheki, Kisii County, are reeling in shock after a man killed his wife, dismembered the body, cooked some parts and fed them to their children.

Following the incident, irate residents lynched the man identified as Stephen Onserio, 55. Police believe Onserio murdered Evelyn Nyaboke a few days earlier before villagers became suspicious. 

After the incident, Onserio is said to have started roaming the village with one of his children, looking suspiciously confused. This prompted villagers to ask him of whereabouts of his wife and why he was walking around with a two-year old boy.

According to Mr Boniface Abel, a neighbour, when Onserio failed to give them a satisfactory answer, the villagers forcibly visited the man’s home. They became suspicious of a foul smell emanating from their matrimonial house.

The villagers stumbled on some pieces of cooked and uncooked meat, which are believed to be Nyaboke’s. “Some of the dismembered parts had been cooked. His eldest child, a 13-year-old mentally challenged daughter, was found locked inside the house,” said Abel.

The villagers questioned Onserio before he reportedly confessed to having killed her. “He confessed that he had been cooking for his children their mother’s flesh. He also admitted that he was the one who killed her some days ago. The irate villagers set him on fire a few metres from the home,” Abel added.

Nyamache Sub-county Police Commander Kipkemoi Kipkulei said: “We recovered a human head and a thigh that had started rotting. We collected the dismembered body parts and Onserio’s lynched body and took it to the mortuary.” 

The police boss further revealed that the lynched man was an ex-convict who had returned home two years ago. He said the man had been arrested and arraigned in court in 2007 for killing his first wife.