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What is Leading Women to Want Their Husbands Dead?

Women killing husbands
                                        Photo: Jenny Traister

Recently, a Kenyan woman — Faith Wairimu Maina — pleaded guilty in court for having plotted to kill her husband of 15 years, John Muthee Guama, at Nairobi’s Zimmerman Estate.

Apparently, Faith had hired hit-men to kill her husband and unknown to her; they turned out to be police officers from the dreaded flying squad. She had earlier tried through a similar plot but it flopped.

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