19-Year-Old School Dropout Kills Boyfriend Over Alleged Infidelity

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19-Year-Old School Dropout Kills Boyfriend Over Alleged InfidelityPolice in Mwea West Sub county in Kirinyaga, Kenya have arrested a 19-year-old lady suspected for murdering her lover over allegations of infidelity.

Jacklyn Wawira, said to be a form two drop out stabbed her 25-year-old boyfriend, Eric Gitonga to death in her grandmother’s compound where she had been staying.

Recounting the incident, Mwea West Sub county police commander, Stephen Okal said the incident happened in Ciagiini village, adding that the lady and her boyfriend, a petrol station attendant, had a heated argument on infidelity which resulted into a fatality.

The argument later transitioned into a fight where the lady is said to have grabbed a sharp kitchen knife and stabbed the young man to death.

We have managed to recover the murder weapon and the lady is being held at Kiamaciri police station,” Okal said adding that further investigations are on going in a bid to unearth further details on the incident.

In the same vein, a man about 30 years old in Kariko-ini village of Kangai ward, Mwea West, has been arrested after he allegedly murdered his 28-year-old wife.

Mwea West Sub county police boss, Stephen Okal said that the man also killed his wife on allegation of infidelity.

According to a source who spoke to K24 Digital on condition of anonymity, Antony Murage suspected that his wife, Esther Wanjiku had been cheating in him.

The source stated;

The man has been accusing the wife of cheating. During a verbal exchange over the issue, the man became aggressive, took a kitchen knife and stabbed the lady several times.

Confirming the incident, the police boss said that the suspect is being held at Kiamaciri police station.

He stated;

We are holding the suspect at Kiamaciri police station, and as soon as the investigation is over, we will give more details.

Suspected love triangles in Mwea Constituency have been on the rise in the recent past, and have resulted to victims suffering from severe injuries as well as resulting to the death of some victims.

In early January, two police officers died, after a prison warden in Gathigiriri prison opened fire and shot another officer who at the time was stationed in Kianyaga police station, over a suspected love triangle.

The officer then turned the gun on himself. Only the lady prison warden survived.

Later in March, a teacher at Karori Girl’s High School in Kîmbîmbî Mwea East Sub county suffered severe injuries after he was attacked by a colleague with a panga, following a suspected love triangle where the two had fallen for an intern lady teacher.

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