A suspect surrendered to the police and confessed he had killed his wife in a domestic fight in a village in Mau Narok, Nakuru county.
He told police that after he had killed his wife identified as Risper
Chepkurui, 24, in their rental house in Tipis Town, Mau Narok, he went to his
home in Kihingo area to hide there.
He informed his mother of the incident, and after consultations, the
suspect was advised to surrender himself at Ndeffo Police Station, where he was
subsequently arrested, police said.
Police said they would process him for murder charges.
The reason for the confrontation that led to the murder was not immediately established, police said.
He, however, said he had argued with the mother of his one boy, which led to
her death.
The body of Chepkurui, who was a casual worker in the are,a was found
sprawled in her house long after her murder.
Her husband and her two-year-old baby boy were missing when the body was
found on September 29, 2025, police said. The man surrendered to the police
later on.
The house where the body was found had blood stains and there were indications of struggle that led to the murder.
Police said the walls of the house were full of blood stains, and it is
suspected that the assailant hit the head of the victim against the wall,s
causing the death.
The body of the woman was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and
other procedures, police said.
Elsewhere in Soy, Uasin Gishu County’s Budalangi village, a 17-year-old
girl was arrested after she threw her three-month-old baby into a stream.
The infant died of drowning. The teenager told police she could not
manage to bring up the minor, hence her move to throw it into the Sergoit
Budalangi stream.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and investigations.
And police in
Embu are investigating an incident where a 42-year-old woman collapsed and died
in her house.
The incident
happened in the Blue Valley area on September 30, 2025, police said.
The woman was rushed to the hospital where she was pronounced
dead on arrival.
A relative was in the house when the incident happened and
raised an alarm for help.
The body was preserved at a local mortuary pending an autopsy, police said.
