Shocking details of how man laid plan to kill his estranged wife emerge

Police in Cheptulu, Nandi South have shared details of how 32-year-old Hanice Simani Juma laid an elaborate plan on how to travel from Nairobi to Nandi where he executed the murder of his 30-year-old estranged wife Winnie Akusuha.
Nandi South police boss Maina Ndurere, according to the plan found on him after he committed suicide, the assailant started scheming from the time his wife left him.
Ndurere shared that Juma bought a black hoody, a special knife, five packets of rat and rat poison, a small torch, and a sash.
Juma, who had traveled to Nairobi for one week after their separation, then traveled back to Serem where he alighted before going to Sirwa and then Kabwareng, where his ex-lover’s parents stay.
The police boss said at around 7 pm on the fateful day, Juma left his phone at home and left with the small torch and the attack weapon.
He then went to the target point where he surveyed and hid around the house before getting in.
Maina stated that the assailant went straight to the wife who was in the kitchen preparing supper for her family where he attacked and killed her on the spot before drinking the poison, which he had by that time put in a bottle and slit his own throat.
“Initial investigation indicates the two had separated a week earlier. After the separation, the lady decided to travel to her parent’s home in Nandi County with her three children,” Ndurere said.
The two had been staying at Ndonyo estate in Nairobi.
After deliberation with her parent, it was resolved that Akusuha stays with her parents.
“She later talked to her estranged husband requesting some documents of the children to be taken to school in Nandi County,” the police boss added.
The husband is said to have traveled to Nandi on Wednesday under the guise of delivering the documents.
The incident comes at a time when cases of homicide and femicide have been on the rise in the country in the recent past sparking public concern.
A recent national survey revealed that 34 per cent of women experienced physical violence in 2022, while the past two months saw the brutal murders of at least six women across different parts of the country.
Femicide Count Kenya recorded 152 killings last year, the highest in the past five years, with women and human rights activists mentioning that the number could be much higher if the many unreported cases are factored in.