The husband of the slaughtered Nyahururu based high school teacher alongside two others will be charged with abduction and murder.
This is after a DNA analysis confirmed the identity of the decomposing body that was retrieved from a 90-foot abandoned well, at Karuga centre, Igwamiti Ward on February 3, 2022, to be that of Miriam Wanjiru.
The four who appeared before Magistrate Charles Obulutsa are; Antony Mutahi, Irene Wairimu, Peter Kanyi, Martha Wairimu and John Ng’ang’a who have been in Police custody awaiting the DNA results.
“We strongly believe that the three suspects took part in the disappearance and murder of Wanjiru,” Obulutsa said.
Ng’ang’a was however absolved on the grounds that evidence gathered during investigations was not enough to build a case against him while Wairimu was released on bail, to be a state witness in the case.
“Ng’ang’a lent his car to the accused. The evidence found does not tie him to the murder of Miriam Wanjiru,” said Obulutsa.
The three will be charged in the Nyahururu High Court on February 28.
Dismembered body of Wanjiru with her torso missing was discovered in a 90 meter well after close to two months since she went missing after the main murder suspect, Mutahi aged 29 years, led homicide detectives to the scene of crime.
Wanjiru was a teacher at St Louis Secondary School after a major teaching stint at Ndururumo High School popularly known by the name Miss Kamui went missing in December last year.
According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) sleuths, she disappeared on December 19, 2021, after she responded to her estranged husband Kanyi’s distress call.
“On the day of her disappearance, Wanjiru’s estranged husband had called her sounding sickly and frail, asking her to go save him from the verge of death after taking poison. The deceased, who didn’t know that she was being lured to a death trap, rushed to save the father of her little angel, never to be seen again,” read DCI report.
Detectives established that after the couple separated, Wanjiru sold a matatu that belonged to her and which her estranged husband used to operate, rendering him jobless.
Upon further scrutiny of the well, a second body of an unidentified teenage girl that was badly decomposed was found.
The police told the court that DNA results of the second body of a teenage girl retrieved with Miriam’s from the well, were yet to be released.