When Evans Karani, 38, confessed to killing her lover Caroline Nyokabi, he did not leave out any detail.
When he was given an option to call a lawyer to represent him, he chose to call his wife, the mother of his five children.
Just like he confessed to the police in Juja after his arrest, he left out no detail as he talked to his wife.
Juja DCI boss Richard Mwaura told Nation that his wife was in denial and she couldn’t buy a word about all this even as Karani confessed his actions on 24-year-old Nyokabi who has since been laid to rest in Narumoru.
“We told him that he had three options to choose from before making the admission: have his lawyers present, or a friend or a member of his family. When Karani’s wife listened to the confession, she reportedly said, “I know him. He can’t hurt a fly,” Mwaura stated.
Karani killed Nyokabi in Ndarugo inside his car.
Karani is a businessman based in Kiambu County and deals in the transport business.
Nyokabi, 24, allegedly got a beating from Karani before being killed for allegedly going out with another man. The two had dated for nearly four years. She was a mother of one.
Karani said that he found a photo of Nyokabi’s alleged new lover in her phone and asked her to delete it but she refused. This hurt him a lot and he decided to take away her life.
He had also planned to kill the man who was dating Nyokabi but changed his mind.
Nyokabi met Karani in Ndarugo not knowing that would be her last day to breathe.
She got into Karani’s car and took her favourite wine which the suspect had bought and waited for her to get drunk. He jumped to the back seat and strangled her using his belt and later a rope which he used to kill her completely.
His car was found in a beaten track behind Mangu High School. A body of a mutilated Nyokabi was lying there, some of her body parts missing.
Karani told detectives that he had planned to take Nyokabi’s body to the forest for wild animals to devour it but his car unluckily got stuck in the mud.
Karani also confessed to the police that he tried to kill himself thrice after the incident but failed at all attempts.
