Family Dispute!!Man stabs wife to death

Murder!  Murder! Murder! Are people more than before now quick to anger and kill for revenge or to fix relationship issues?

According to the Economic Survey 2018, there has been a steady rise in the number of murders over the last three years.

A man in Makueni is currently  locked up at  Emali police station after stabbing to death his wife in a domestic row.

According to the interview with the Star,Nzaui OCPD Patrick Nandi said the 36-year-old woman had deep wounds on the chest.She died on the way to Kilome Nursing home.

“We suspect the motive of the incident was a domestic quarrel but we have started investigations,” Nandi said.

The deceased, Jackline Mutindi, a mother of three worked as a room attendant at a hotel in Emali town.

The incident occurred in their house near Emali Bus Park on Saturday at 8 am.

According to Mbula Mueni, her manager in the hotel, they learned of the incident through one of Mutindi’s neighbors.

“A woman ran into the hotel and told us that Mutindi had been attacked by her husband, I rushed to the scene accompanied by some of my staff and found her lying in a pool of blood on the floor of their house,” said Mueni.

The husband was briefly detained by residents who had responded to distress calls from the deceased before he was arrested by police officers and locked at Emali police station.

The body has been moved to Makindu sub-county hospital mortuary.

In 2014, police recorded 2,649 murder cases across the country. It dropped to 2,648 in 2015 but increased marginally to 2,751 in 2017.

Though no explanation is offered for the murders or the gender of those involved, cases involving relationships have been on the rise.

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