Police are investigating the murder of a 40-year-old woman whose body was yesterday afternoon found deep inside Ngonio forest next to the bank of river Sagana within Mt. Kenya Game Park in Nyeri county.
Wambui Macharia’s body was found with multiple deep cuts all over inflicted by sharp object and was almost naked in a thicket covered with heavy shrubs.
According to the deceased brother in-law, Daniel Muriuki Gitari, Wambui went missing on Saturday morning where she was last spotted entering the forest accompanied by her husband, John Macharia Gitari.
“… the 57-year-old Gitari was found unconscious having consumed a herbicide in an attempt to commit suicide and rushed to Karatina hospital where he died this yesterday morning due to the effects of the poison,” said a police source.
A suicide note was recovered from the husband’s pocket written in Kikuyu language stating that he has taken the poison to die because he killed his wife due to her prostitution behaviour.
The relatives searched for her and finally found the lifeless body where traces of blood were concentrated at the river bank.
Her right leg rubber shoe and a piece of her jacket were found about 20 meters across the river.
Wambui’s body was moved to Karatina hospital mortuary awaiting post-mortem.