A woman standing trial for the murder of her husband has denied delivering him to his killers.Jane Muthoni, the widow of Kiru Boys High School principal Solomon Mwangi, denied claims that she participated or planned the killing of her husband as claimed by the prosecution.<\/p>\n
In the second day of her defense hearing before Justice Joel Ngugi, Muthoni broke down in tears as she gave an account of the events surrounding her husband\u2019s disappearance and death.She said that she learnt Mwangi was missing from the Murang\u2019a sub-county director of education on November 7, 2016.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe education official called me at around 7am to inquire why my husband had not reported to the examination centre to pick up exam papers. The sub-county education director then went to Kiru Boys and broke into his house, but he was nowhere to be found,\u201d said the widow.<\/p>\n
Muthoni testified that she had last seen her husband on the weekend of November 5 and 6, 2016. \u201cI was in the company of our three children and house-help on that Sunday. Mwangi bade us goodbye and went back to work in Murang\u2019a.\u201dThe widow told the court that they had stopped calling each other after discovering their phones had been hacked. Instead, she said, they used to communicate using messaging apps such as WhatsApp and IMO.<\/p>\n
Phone signal<\/strong><\/p>\n She also said that detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations had told her that a signal from Mwangi\u2019s mobile phone had been picked up at Kiriaini area at around 8.40pm on Sunday.Muthoni claimed that her family helped to search for her husband but only one in-law took part in the exercise.<\/p>\n Recounting her movements on the day Mwangi was reported missing, the accused said that the chairman of Kiru Boys accompanied her to the CID department of the Kasarani Police Station where she filed a missing person\u2019s report.They later drove to the Thika mortuary after receiving a call that a body had been found and she was required to identify it. It later turned out that it wasn\u2019t her husband.<\/p>\n Muthoni said that she filed another report at the Ruiru CID office and was directed to the Gatundu Police Station where she also reported that her husband was missing.The widow told the court that she also stopped at Mukurwe on her way back to their home in Gatundu. \u201cOn November 8, I was also at Mukurwe, a place I frequently visited to pick traditional vegetables. I was never near the place where my husband\u2019s body was found.<\/p>\n \u201dMuthoni said that word soon started spreading that she had killed Mwangi so that she could benefit from a Sh10 million loan he had taken.\u201cI received a phone call from the secretary of Murang\u2019a Woman Representative Sabina Chege who said that she had heard rumors about me killing Mwangi. The lady told me that some principals were questioning why I had reported my husband\u2019s disappearance at the Kasarani Police Station.<\/p>\n \u201dMuthoni told the court that word had also gone round that she had had an affair with a CID officer who she wanted to use to kill Mwangi.\u201cThe officer in question is Nelson Njiru, who was a supplier not only in the school I managed but also Kiru Boys, where my husband taught,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n She added: \u201cI communicated with Njiru using my husband\u2019s number, which I had inserted in his laptop, from 11pm to 1am on the night of November 5 and 6. I would also chat with him using my number to inquire about the Internet.\u201dMuthoni\u2019s defense hearing resumes on March 18 and 19 at the Kiambu Law Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A woman standing trial for the murder of her husband has denied delivering him to his killers.Jane Muthoni, the widow of Kiru Boys High School principal Solomon Mwangi, denied claims that she participated or planned the killing of her husband as claimed by the prosecution. In the second day of her defense hearing before Justice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":2939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[1506,1594],"class_list":["post-2938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-directorate-of-criminal-investigations","tag-kiru-boys-high-school"],"yoast_head":"\n