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‘Possessive, jealous’ Kenyan jailed for 22 years in UK for stabbing wife 32 times

 Richard Nyawanda Otunga 

Kenya: A jealous Kenyan husband who stabbed his 33-year-old wife to death in a horrifying and savage attack was jailed for 22 years at Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court on Monday.

Royal Mail postman Richard Nyawanda Otunga, 37, of Taywood Road, Northolt, west London, will spend 22 years behind bars for the murder of mother-of-one Shamim Gabriel.

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