Caroline Wanjiku has confessed to hacking her mother-in-
law Ann Nyambura to death in Kiambu county. She said
that Satan had asked her to also kill her mother and sister
but she didn't find them at home. The 29-year-old
reported to Thigio chief’s post on Monday, September 21,
saying visions of snakes coiling around her waist kept her up
at night.
"On Sunday night when I went to sleep, the snakes
visited me. They asked me to kill the three people
they kept asking for, but I prayed to God and slept
after they left. The following morning, they came
again and asked me to kill them. I do not know
what happened but I proceeded to the kitchen where
my mother-in-law was and killed her with an ax."
She said
She told the press, administration police and residents she
also intended to kill her mother and sister but did not find
them at her matrimonial home. "It is Satan who disturbs
my mind," said the woman whose husband, David Njenga,
works in Qatar.
She said she committed the crime while her father-in-law,
Ben Maara, was at a garage washing his car, and then
took a boda boda to her home.
Assistant chief James Mwaura said Wanjiku told her
father-in-law that she had killed his wife, and asked for
her mother and sister. "She went to the AP post to report
what she had done when she could not find her mother and
her sister," Mwaura said. "She has been taking tablets
which control her mental problem but no one knows what
happened. We are leaving everything to investigators."
Officers from Tigoni police station and crime scene
detectives from Nairobi county reported to the scene and
began a probe. They collected blood samples and the ax and
took statements from family members, but declined to
comment saying they were not authorised to address the
press.
Wanjiku was later transferred from the chief’s post to the
police station. Officers said she will undergo a mental check
at Mathari hospital. The body was taken to City mortuary
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