A university student who killed his girlfriend in 2018 has been sentenced to 10 years in jail.
Edmond Ruto,28, a student at Egerton University, confessed to having stabbed his girlfriend to death in a suspected love triangle.
At the time of the incident, Ruto was a fourth-year student at Egerton university.
Ruto told the court that he killed his girlfriend Cynthia Chelangat out of anger.
He says he was mad because Chelagat had opted to end their relationship.
At the time of her death, Chelangat was also a student in the same institution studying Agriculture.
Ruto stormed Chelagat’s room and locked the door from the inside and stabbed her twice on the neck.
Chelagat died in hospital after being rushed there by neighbors.
Ruto was then arrested and arraigned in court on February 21, 2018, but pleaded not guilty to murder charges.
He later confessed to killing her and regretted his actions and asked Chelagat’s family for forgiveness.
However, in his ruling Justice Joel Ngugi pointed the murder case to the toxic masculinity that needs to be discouraged in society.
“This is the kind of toxic masculine behavior that requires vehement discouragement in our young people as the victim’s counsel correctly pointed out,” Justice Ngugi ruled.
His decade-long sentence will run from February 2018 when he was arraigned in court according to the judge.
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