DCI detectives in Kapsabet have arrested a man suspected to have murdered his wife in cold blood on Valentine’s Day.
The suspect, Zackaria Ng’asura, 65, was arrested by homicide detectives at his home in Kiprambu village, Chepkumia location of Nandi Central on Monday evening.
Nandi county criminal investigation officer Douglas Chikanda said Ng’asura stabbed the late Rose Cherono while she slept at her Kiprambu home in Chepkumia on the morning of February 14, 2023.
The deceased was stabbed while asleep by “unknown persons” right into her heart and was pronounced dead at a private hospital in Kapsabet.
The late Cherono,53, a mother of six, was sleeping with her daughter and three grandchildren in the kitchen after she was expelled by her husband from the main house.
The deceased is yet to be buried and has had her burial postponed severally by the suspect, a move that has puzzled relatives and villagers.
An autopsy indicated that Rose was stabbed with a blunt object which penetrated her ribs and pierced her heart, two inches deep.
