Neighbour killed for 'introducing man's wife to prostitution'

Everlyne Achieng who was stabbed to death in Kakamega on Monday. [Photo: CHRISPEN SECHERE/standard]

A woman was stabbed to death by her neighbour for “wrecking his marriage”.

Witness said Evelyn Achieng was killed after a quarrel in which her assailant accused her of introducing his wife to prostitution.

According to them, Alex Wekesa came home from work on Monday morning but his wife Juliet was nowhere to be seen.

He then started quarreling with a neighbour and when Ms Achieng tried to intervene he stabbed her in the stomach using a kitchen knife. Achieng, a single mother, has left behind a two-year-old girl.

Abdullah Nganyi, a village elder said Mr Wekesa had claimed that Achieng had the habit of accompanying his wife to clubs at night when he was away.

“On Monday around 7.30pm I heard loud cries. I rushed out and found the victim in a pool of blood and I called the police,” Mr Nganyi said.

He added that Wekesa has been arrested more than six times on various offences including burglary, selling bhang and fighting.

After the killing, Makaburini residents demolished Wekesa’s houses and those of his neighbours, saying they did not intervene to solve the matter. About five houses were demolished.

Residents claimed the landlord rented out the houses to Wekesa even after neighbours insisted that he be evicted for being involved in crime.

Kakamega police boss Managen Warui said police were looking for the suspect and his wife.

“Police are pursuing the suspect and once investigations are complete he will be arraigned in court,” Mr Warui said.

“We left with the suspect’s wife, Achieng and other girls to have fun in town. We just had a few drinks but Wekesa did not want to hear any explanation and asked us to tell him how much we were given for taking his wife to see other men,” a witness claimed.

After the incident, Wekesa and his wife took their two children aged five and three years and fled.

Residents blamed neighbours for not helping or alerting authorities when suspicious incidents happen.