I'm Innocent, School Principal Jailed for Husband’s Murder Says

Jane Muthoni, who was sentenced to 30 years in jail for the murder of her husband, insists she is innocent.

Muthoni is serving her sentence at Lang’ata Women’s Prison after she was found guilty of killing her husband Solomon Mwangi, who was the principal of Kiiru Boys High School.

She was handed the sentence alongside her co-accused Isaac Ng’ang’a by Nakuru High Court judge Joel Ngugi in June this year.

In a recent interview with The Standard, Muthoni said she loved her deceased husband, and expressed confidence that his killers would one day be brought to book.

“I loved Solomon too much to harm him. It might not be today but one day the truth will be known,” Muthoni asserted.

She also dismissed claims by her in-laws that she was a problematic wife, stating that she lived with her husband in harmony.

While sentencing Muthoni and her co-accused, Justice Ngugi acknowledged that the two were both first-time offenders and that Muthoni has young children, who consider her the sole breadwinner.

But the judge stated that the killing was premeditated, saying that that evidence tabled in court showed there was intent and several attempts to commit the crime.

“Both accused persons had opportunities to walk back but they chose the path of death,” ruled the judge.

Mwangi went missing on November 6th, 2016, and his lifeless and mutilated body was found dumped at Karakuta Coffee Estate in Juja, Kiambu county a week later.

Muthoni, the former principal of Icaciri Secondary School in Kiambu, was accused of hiring assassins to kill her husband. The prosecution submitted that Muthoni paid four men to execute Mwangi on suspicion of having an extra-marital affair.

Key suspect Joseph Kariuki was handed a seven-year jail sentence after confessing to playing part in the murder alongside Nelson Njiru, who is still at large.