Kenyan man allegedly caught carrying wife's corpse in backpack


Police in Kenya have arrested a person sporting a mutilated corpse in his backpack, which he reportedly mentioned belonged to his 19-year-old spouse.

Officials got here throughout 29-year-old John Kiama Wambua day patrolling Huruma, a district east of Nairobi, simply ahead of daybreak.

Suspecting Wambua was once sporting one thing unlawful, they searched his backpack and “to their shock” discovered the frame portions, mentioned a observation from Kenya’s Directorate of Legal Investigations (DCI).

That is a long way from an sovereign case – Kenya has one of the vital perfect charges of femicide, or killings with a gender-related motivation, in Africa.

Then law enforcement officials interrogated Mr Wambua, he advised them that the frame portions belonged to his spouse, Pleasure Fridah Munani, consistent with the DCI observation.

He seemed “unperturbed” through the officials’ discovery, it mentioned.

Then the interrogation, Mr Wambua led the officials to his house, the place they came upon a knife, blood-soaked garments and extra frame portions beneath a mattress.

The DCI described the occupation as “heinous”, including that the suspect can be officially charged with homicide all over an later courtroom listening to.

Between August and October terminating yr, a minimum of 97 ladies have been murdered, Kenya’s Nationwide Police Provider mentioned.

In December, loads of ladies protesting in opposition to a contemporary tide of femicides took to the streets of the capital, Nairobi. They have been reportedly met through police firing teargas.

Kenya has visible a number of high-profile murders of ladies. In September 2024, Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei was once killed through her former spouse.

The 33-year-old died days next being doused in petrol and poised alight at her house in western Kenya.

In July, police arrested Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, who they described as a “serial killer”, next the mutilated our bodies of 9 ladies have been present in a disused quarry.

Mr Khalusha escaped from custody a presen next and looks to nonetheless be at the run.

Previous that yr, in a case that sparked usual outrage, a tender lady named Rita Waeni was once brutally murdered at a non permanent apartment condominium. The police mentioned she was once dismembered and filled right into a plastic bag.