US-Based Kenyan Businesswoman Sentenced to Death for Killing Husband
A Kenyan High Court on Tuesday sentenced to death a Kenyan businesswoman based in the United States after she was found guilty of shooting and killing her husband three years ago.
Sheila Wanjiku will face the hangsman after she was found culpable of murdering Leonard Kibinge on April 15, 2014 at Gitaru village, Kikuyu constituency.
While delivering the sentence Justice Jessie Lessit said she found her guilty of committing the offence.
Wanjiku was convicted on circumstantial evidence because there was no direct evidence connecting her to the murder since the weapon used to commit the murder was never recovered.
The court said Wanjiku’s innocence was not sufficiently proven hence handing her the prison term.
Wanjiku, while testifying in the court, denied committing the crime and alleged that together with her husband they were kidnapped and her husband killed in the process.
Justice Lessit said the only punishment allowed under the law for the offense of murder is death after Wanjiku pleaded for a non-custodial sentence arguing she was remorseful as the incident had left her better half dead.
Judge Lessit questioned why Wanjiku bypassed Kikuyu Police Station, which is metres away from the purported crime scene and opted to report the ‘kidnapping’ at Central Police Station in Nairobi.
In her testimony, she claimed that she came to Kenya to process a visa for her husband so that they could relocate to the US.
Comments (7)
I thought there was no hang-man in Kenya.
I thought Kifaki abolished hanging. It seems like jubilee returned it
According to the Nation newspaper she is a lecturer with a PHD kwani how much was the land worth for her to come all the way and then kill the spouse or was it mpango wa kando gone awry and nothing is worse than a woman scorned
@Kenya: Kenya has had only ONE real president. His name is Mwai Kibaki. The rest are con-men and con-artists.
Mwakilishi:
Thank you very much for creating an environment where Kenyans can exchange ideas and occasionally vent their anger and frustrations.
Ni wega muno mutongoria! Asante sana Kiongozi.
Hekima, your comment on this story does not make any sesnse.
It is sad news for awife to kill the husband who is also the father of her children hilo ni pepo la ajabu duniani Mungu aturehemu