Ruth Kamande, the beauty queen behind bars yesterday admitted to murdering her boyfriend on September 20, 2015 by stabbing him 22 times.
Kamande struck to the limelight in 2016 after winning the Miss Lang’ata Prison beauty pageant.
In her confession, she told Justice Jessie Lessit that she stabbed her lover Farid Mohammed in self-defense.
She told the Judge that trouble started after she got wind of a medical card in her lover’s house-under his mattress showing he is HIV positive.
“Farid told me that he would rather kill me and himself than have his status exposed. l stabbed him severally using a kitchen knife, which fell on my chest from his hands after I overpowered him after putting my two thumbs in his eyes to save my life,” she said in her testimony according to the Star.
Kamande told the Judge she was in emotional pain knowing the man she has lived to love was HIV positive and he hid it from her.
“Your honour, it pained me to know that the person who l loved and trusted so much was to ruin my life by infecting me with HIV and Aids,” she added.
She said she stabbed him out of fear and tried to take her own life too.
Her final moments with her boyfriend, she recounted, were marred by threats. Mohammed threatened to kill her if she revealed his status to his family.
She also said that the night before, they were in a heated argument as Mohammed wanted to have unprotected sex with her.
She had also argued with Mohammed over love letters she found tucked on his bedside locker.
It at this point that the deceased boyfriend admitted to having two ex-girlfriends- Scholar and Esther who he abandoned before he got engaged to Kamande.
“After demanding an explanation over the two love letters I found in his bedroom he became angry took the two letters and tore them into pieces trying to make me believe that the two letters meant nothing to him.”
The court heard that among the exhibits retrieved from the house was a love letter sent to Mohammed from a lady in the US, a damaged mobile phone and the kitchen knife Kamande used to stab him.
The accused told the court that she tried to save her boyfriend after realizing he was bleeding excessively. She said she ran to the kitchen to get him some water.
She also said that during the struggle, the deceased; he inflicted her with several injuries on her chest, stomach, fingers, hands, right thigh and abdomen.
Prosecution witness, Ndwiga Gatumo, a landlord had earlier told the court that he was preparing for Church when heard distress calls from Mohammed’s house. “”nisaidie nasaidie amenidunga” ( Help! Help! She has stabbed me.”
“I rushed out of my room and proceeded to where the man was screaming for help and peeped through the window. I recognised the voice as that of my tenant,” Gatumo told the Court.
“I was able to see a man shouting and the girl also standing in front of him holding a knife.”
A witness police officer, Joseph Otieno told the court that he was confronted by a bloody scene at the deceased’s house.
Otieno said that by the time he arrived, Mohammed was already dead.