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Joel Maritim and Elizabeth Maritim. The couple lost a daughter and three grandchildren after their son-in-law doused the family with petrol and set them ablaze. [File, Standard]
Elizabeth Maritim is yet to come to terms with the death of her daughter Joylene Chepkurui Chepkwony and her three children burned to death by their father in Kaptoboiti village, Belgut constituency.
She recounted events of April 3, 2015, when Ernest Chepkwony, 40, stormed the compound at 6:30am carrying a jerry can of petrol and went straight into a house where his estranged wife and the children were sleeping.
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