Man 29, held for stabbing lover

MWALA, KENYA: Police in Mwala have arrested a man who stabbed and killed his estranged girlfriend on Christmas day.

Police arrested the suspect identified as Kennedy Musyoka, 29, on Wednesday evening as he tried to board a matatu to escape.

Musyoka is said to be a casual worker at a local hotel while the deceased worked as a barmaid in Mwala town.

Sources told The Standard that the two had been in a love relationship but had since separated, differed after the deceased declined to accompany her former boyfriend to a disco