The court on Thursday heard of a grisly murder of a 3-year-old whose life was taken by his own mother.
Mary Nyapunyi’s husband, Aggrey Angolo said that the wife timed when he had just left for the shopping center, when she performed the heinous act.
Angolo told the court that he stayed in the house till in the afternoon when he left to a nearby shopping center leaving the accused and their son behind. However, on coming back, he found people coalescing at his homestead with his son’s body lying lifeless on his grandfather’s grave. The body had deep cut wounds at the back of the head.
A post mortem report conducted at St Mary’s Mission Hospital indicated that the cause of death was a severe head injury.
Nyapunyi told the police that she murdered her son but did not disclose the motive of committing the heinous crime.
The suspect has been in custody for the last one year after an initial mental assessment report indicated she was mentally unstable to stand murder trial.
The murder took place on May 8, 2018.
However, a recent assessment found her mentally fit when she appeared in court on Thursday.
She appeared before High Court Judge Jesse Njagi where she denied the murder charges and was granted Sh300,000 bond with a surety of similar amount.
Her case will be heard on October 14.
Elsewhere, a group of women from Nairobi’s Satelite area are demanding justice following the brutal murder of their colleague by an unknown person.
Twenty two year old Elizabeth Njoki a Commercial Sex Worker was reportedly killed by her client who allegedly tortured her before killing her.
Caro Maina Njoki’s colleague says Njoki was last spotted last week on Friday in Hurlingham area at around 5 am speaking to a client who was in a car.
“Njoki is a very talkative person and when we did not hear from her for two days, we suspected that something wrong happened,” said Maina.
She says it is after the client picked her that she went missing only to be found dead five days later at the Kenyatta National Hospital Mortuary.
“We first of all went to her house in Satelite but we did not find her, then we lodged a complaint at the Kilimani Police Station before proceeding to mortuaries only to find her at the KNH Mortuary on Thursday,” said Maina.
Maina says Njoki’s body had strangulation marks, her face was swollen and had suffered deep cuts on her body.