Police have launched a manhunt for a suspect who is reported to have killed his daughter and stabbed his wife following a domestic dispute at their home in Mwihoko, Kiambu County.
According to a police report obtained by The Kenya Times, the incident unfolded when the 45-year-old suspect who had left home following domestic differences with his wife returned to the said plot in Mwihoko as reported by the landlord.
The suspect violently knocked at the door prompting his wife Teresia Wairimu to react.
As Wairimu opened the door, the suspect grabbed their three-year-old son and said that he was leaving with him.
This prompted resistance from the woman. The 45-year-old man then took a kitchen knife and stabbed the wife in her head before turning to their daughter who was screaming for help and stabbing her in the back.
“The wife tried to resist, and the husband (suspect) took a kitchen knife and stabbed her on her head and then turned on their daughter aged 16 who was screaming for help and stabbed her on the back,” reads the police report.
“He then escaped to an unknown destination leaving the knife and an unharmed son behind.”
Mother and daughter attacked in Mwihoko
Neighbours rushed the victims to Ruiru sub-county hospital where the mother is undergoing treatment after she was admitted.
However, the 16-year-old daughter was pronounced dead on arrival at the same facility.
A blood-stained knife believed to be the murder weapon was recovered at the scene in Mwihoko.
“Police officers then visited Ruiru Sub- County hospital found the body of the deceased lying on a hospital bed with a stab wound in the back while the mother was undergoing treatment with injuries on the head,” added police.
“The body of the deceased has been processed and moved to Thika level 5 hospital morgue pending an autopsy.”
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Elsewhere, police have launched a probe into the mysterious disappearance of 28-year-old Lilian Nyambura Mbugua who went missing while at her mother’s home in Gikono, Kabati, Murang’a County two days to Christmas Day.
Woman goes missing without trace
Lilian had travelled to her mother’s home on Saturday, December 21, for the festivities.
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The brand manager with East Africa Breweries Limited (EABL) in Nairobi then attended a church service with her mother on Sunday before returning home.
The family had a joyous breakfast and lunch together on Monday after which Lilian walked out of their compound in a gated community at around 5:00PM for what the family said seemed like an evening stroll.
However, the family got concerned when Lilian failed to return.
Upon trying to reach the brand manager on her two mobile phones, they found she had left both gadgets in the house before heading out.
“It seemed like she had just gone for an ordinary walk around the estate because she was still in her head scarf and slippers. Her mother was doing some house chores in the backyard,” George Njuguna, Lilian’s uncle, told Citizen.
“Her car, keys, laptop and keys to her Nairobi keys were also in the family house, alongside all her identity documents.”
The family waited for Lilian in vain and reported the matter to the nearby Gikono police post on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 24.
They also reported to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in Kenol.
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