Man escapes after strangling his wife

Business

By CYRUS OMBATI

A man is on the run after strangling his wife before sending a message to her parents in Nairobi’s Umoja estate.

Police say they are looking for Gilbert Oketch Kabule following the discovery of the body of his wife Caroline Wanza on Thursday night.

Kabule, an accountant, is said to have first stabbed the woman several times, tortured her by burning her face using an iron box before tying her body and locked it in the bedroom.

According to neighbours and the woman’s relatives, Kabule later sent a message to the parents using his mobile phone and asked them to pick the body from the house and take it to the mortuary.

After the bizarre ordeal, police say Kabule escaped to an unknown destination.

The deceased, 21, who worked as a hairdresser in the estate, had stayed with the man for a year.

Police say the suspect sent a text to the deceased’s mother; Emma Mueni who stays in Kayole.

According to the distraught Mueni and police the message read: "Sorry mum, burry her next to my house."

When she received the message on Thursday at about 10pm, she headed for Umoja, about five kilometers away after her daughter’s and son-in-law’s mobile phones went unanswered.

On reaching her daughter’s house, Mueni says she met Kabule’s brother standing at the entrance apparently to stop her from accessing the ugly scene.

But upon insisting, she managed to get in only to discover her daughter’s lifeless body tied. It was then that police were called in.

Neighbours said the two had domestic quarrels related to infidelity.

"She said the man was not honest to her and they had been quarreling. But the man did not seem brutal," said a neighbour who visited the scene.

Nairobi Area PPO Anthony Kibuchi said they are yet to establish the motive of the incident.

"Given he sent a message to the parents of the deceased on the incident, he is our suspect for now but we are yet to know the motive of the whole episode," said Kibuchi.

Kibuchi added that they are investigating it as a murder incident and urged Kabule to surrender to the authorities.

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