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Dennis Musyoka, the man who stabbed his wife six times before setting himself on fire inside a car had two pending police cases.
His wife Elizabeth Musyoka, who escaped from the vehicle, has described the deceased as a disturbed person, claiming she had reported the threats to police on two separate occasions last year.
Their two-year-old child who was in the car at the time succumbed to burns at Kenyatta National Hospital where she was rushed for treatment on August 21.
CCTV footage obtained by police from the scene at Nasra estate shows Elizabeth driving into the compound about 20 minutes to midday.
Musyoka then shows up carrying a small carrier bag and enters the backseat of the vehicle.
Minutes later, the two seem to be engaged in a scuffle before Elizabeth bolts out calling for help.
The vehicle's door is banged then it goes up in smoke immediately.
Elizabeth told The Nairobian on phone that she was still coming to terms with the ordeal in the hands of the deceased to further talk about it.
But in a televised interview, the distraught woman revealed that their relationship was unstable until last year when she decided to move out.
"We had been having domestic issues until I moved out with the child...he used to meet the child on Sundays because he used to threaten me a lot demanding to see her," she stated.
She said August 20 was their child's birthday and Musyoka had insisted on seeing the child on Saturday.
"I was busy that day and I told him he would see the child as usual on Sunday. I was planning to go and leave the child with him then proceed to church," she said.
"When I arrived at the parking lot and called him, he was carrying a small bag as he entered the backseat. He then removed a knife and threatened that he would kill me and the child," she said.
Elizabeth said that amid the scuffle, she managed to dislodge herself from Musyoka's arms in an attempt to alight but he grabbed her hair and stabbed her forehead and arms six times before she managed to get out.
The child was left in the car with her father.
While outside calling for help, Elizabeth said, the car went up in flames.
Musyoka did not make it out alive, but the child who sustained burns succumbed the following day while receiving treatment in hospital.
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