Evans Karani, the man implicated in the gruesome murder of Catherine Nyokabi allegedly confessed to detectives that he killed his lover.
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.
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 mud.
The 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.
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 on Wednesday last week 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.
Despite confessing, he was remanded for 14 more days after being arraigned.
