Double tragedy as man lynched over wife murder

Homa Bay: An angry mob lynched a 33-year-old man who allegedly killed his wife over domestic differences.

Police said Erick Otieno was killed on Tuesday evening at Adiedo trading centre in Rachuonyo North sub-county for allegedly strangling his wife, Irene Anyango, 23.

Otieno is said to have arrived at his Adiedo Kasaka Village home in West Kanyaluo at 1am before ordering his wife to get out of the house.

The man is said to have taken his wife to a nearby bush where he strangled her to death.

Otieno is said to have then tied the body of the woman to a motorbike and taken it to a hotel compound where he dumped it.

Area chief Elias Ombim said preliminary investigations fingered Otieno as the killer of his wife--a mother of two children.

"We went to his home and his children said the father went back home that night and ordered their mother to get out before they left for an unknown destination. They also heard their father beating their mother before he returned alone to the house towards dawn," said Ombim.

He said they also traced the footprints of the man and the motorbike he used since it had rained in the area.

The chief said the two had domestic differences and the wife had often complained that the man slept on the sofa instead of their matrimonial bed.

The suspect had fled to Oyugis town but residents tracked him down and killed him.

Homa Bay County Police Commander warned the locals against taking the law into their own hands.