Man hangs himself after killing wife

Neighbors peep into the one bed roomed house where Joseph Waikwa, 54, hacked his wife of thirty years Zeripah Gathoni, 50, to death before hanging himself at Gathundia village in Karima area of Othaya in Nyeri County over what close relatives said might have been sparked off by domestic squabbles. [Mose Sammy/Standard]

A couple was yesterday found dead in their house in an apparent murder-suicide.

Joseph Waikwa, 54, is suspected to have killed his wife at their Gathundia home in Othaya before killing himself.