June Mbuthi, the daughter of the convicted former Principal of Icaciri Secondary School Jane Muthoni has asked the court to be lenient with her mother.
Nakuru High Court judge Joel Ngugi in April found Muthoni guilty of murdering her husband Solomon Mbuthi Mwangi who was a principal at Kiiru Boys’ Secondary School.
Muthoni is at the Lang’ata Women’s prison awaiting sentencing.
In a virtual court session on Tuesday, June pleaded for leniency saying her mother’s incarceration has damaged her family.
June and her siblings are all alone with no one to take care of them.
She told the court that though what happened was not right, they now need their mother.
“We all want justice for my father. He was my best friend but the absence of my parents has been so hard for my siblings and I for the past 5 years. We request the court to have mercy on my mum,” she pleaded according to Nation.
“I know it can’t be undone but we don’t have anyone we can fully rely on. All that time, we have been depending on third parties like relatives and friends.”
Muthoni was set to be sentenced on Tuesday but this was moved to June 3, 2021 following her daughter’s plea.
According to witness testimonies and investigations by the police, Muthoni murdered her husband in cold blood over a young woman working as an M-Pesa attendant.
She hired Isaac Ng’ang’a and Nelson Njiru to carry out the heinous murder and later dumped the body at a coffee farm in Kiambu.
I court documents, she was marked as MWK. She was the reason why Mwangi was killed shortly after taking a Ksh10 million loan.
Muthoni contracted hitmen and paid Ksh50,000 for Mwangi to be killed. Justice Ngugi noted that “evidence demonstrated that she was the author of the plot”.
Ng’ang’a and Njiru were the hitmen who executed the job and dumped his body at Karakuta Coffee Estate in Juja on November 6, 2016.
There were 18 text message that proved Muthoni ordered for her husband’s murder and 21 witnesses who incriminated her.
