The man told police he quarreled with the wife before he picked up a mattock which he used to hack her fatally.
The incident happened on Christmas Day. The two had been quarreling in
their house before it went physical and fatal.
The man then walked to the nearby police station where he surrendered and
confessed to the murder.
He led police to the scene where the body was found lying in a pool of
blood and with a deep cut in the head.
The mattock believed to have been used in the murder was recovered at the
scene and kept as an exhibit, police said.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy.
And the body of a lorry driver who was missing was found dumped on the
roadside in Kasyelia, Makueni County.
The body of Peter Kianga, 28 was found dumped in a thicket off the
Masii-Tawa road on Christmas Eve after his murder.
His legs and hands were tied using shoe laces while the neck had an
elastic rubber band around it. His head seemed to have been hit with a blunt
object and blood oozing from the mouth.
The body was also covered with a grey sheet and it is suspected that the
deceased was murdered elsewhere and the body dumped at the scene.
The lorry he had been driving was found abandoned along Tawa-Matuu road,
police said.
The motive of the murder was not known, police said as they moved the
body to the mortuary.
In Kingeero, Kabete, Kiambu County, one Clinton Waitii, 25 was fatally
stabbed in an altercation with a colleague at the Mwimuto Fresh Farm Produce
Market.
He was found bleeding minutes after his attack and rushed to the hospital
where he was pronounced dead on arrival, police said.
The motive of the attack was not known. Police said a suspect was
arrested over the incident and that the body was moved to the mortuary pending
an autopsy.
And police are pursuing a gang that killed a boda boda rider before
stealing his motorcycle in Pap Ndege area.
The body of Varon Okinyi, 25 was found dumped near the Kabunde airstrip
after his murder.
The motorcycle he was riding was missing, police said.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and hunt on the
assailants and robbers.
in Savane area, Kakamega County, one Eugene Imiri, 25 was found murdered and
his body dumped in a ditch.
Witnesses told police a gang of about 20 had invaded his house and forced
him out. They tied and tortured him to death.
The motive was not immediately known. police were called to the scene and moved the body to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other investigations.
No
arrest had been made by Boxing Day even as police said they were investigating
the murder.
