A man died on the morning of Thursday, March 6, after his wife allegedly stabbed him before partially setting his body on fire in Canary Village, Shamata Ward, Aberdare Nyandarua County.
County Commissioner Jardesa Abdikadir, who confirmed the incident, said Police officers in Nyandarua are pursuing the woman who fled into hiding.
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According to him, the incident occurred following a domestic dispute.
John Maina, 36 years old, met his death after a quarrel with his partner, a dispute that led his wife to stab him in several places before setting his body on fire.
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Nyandarua Woman Kills Husband, Sets Body on Fire
The body of the deceased has been moved to the mortuary at Nyahururu County Referral Hospital for further examination, while police officers continue to search for the suspect.
Cases of domestic violence in Kenya have risen in recent years, with many incidents involving love triangles.
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The incident follows a similar one in September 2024, when Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei tragically died after being doused in petrol by her ex-lover.
The two had been embroiled in a land dispute that had been reported to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), with accusations that the man was attempting to defraud his child of her land.
In November of the same year, police arrested a woman suspected of stabbing and killing her husband using a pair of scissors in Busia County.
The woman was accused of stabbing her partner seven times following a family dispute, which led to his death.
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Cases of Women Involved in Husband’s Murder
In another tragic case, a policewoman, Constable Lilian Biwott, was sentenced to 35 years in prison for killing her husband.
The High Court in Eldoret convicted Biwott in December 2024 for shooting her husband, Victor Kipchumba, 12 times in October 2023 at their Kimumu estate in Eldoret, following a domestic dispute.
The judge ruled that Biwott did not provide any compelling reasons for using her firearm to shoot her husband, emphasizing the brutality of the attack.
Justice Reuben Nyakundi stated that the sentence should serve as a deterrent to those resorting to violence in domestic conflicts, particularly in light of the increasing gender-based violence cases in the country.
Meanwhile, in August 2024, a woman was arrested after allegedly killing her husband during a suspected domestic altercation in Kasarani, Nairobi.
A caretaker of an apartment reported that the man’s body was found in his house after a Saturday incident.
It emerged that the couple had argued and fought before the woman stabbed the man in the chest with a kitchen knife, killing him on the spot. Police arrived at the scene and arrested the woman.
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