Evans Karani, a man who confessed to detectives that he killed his lover Caroline Nyokabi denied the charges before a Kiambu court.
Karani, 38, appeared before Kiambu High Court judge Mary Kasango virtually on Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to murder charges.
This was a departure from his earlier stand that he murdered his 24-year-old lover. He had even asked the court to expedite his ruling.
Karani, 38, is a businessman based in Kiambu County and deals in the transport business. He told detectives that he murdered Nyokabi whom he had been dating for a while despite having a wife and kids.
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.
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.
According to Juja DCI boss Richard Mwaura, when Karani was given an option to call a lawyer to represent him, he chose to call his wife, the mother of his five children.
“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 told Nation.
