BY SAM ALFAN
A furious lady was charged for biting her friend’s lip after finding out that she was having an illicit affair with her boyfriend.
Esther Waithera was accused that on June 24 at Embakasi area in Nairobi, she beat Lucy Mbadi and injured her body.
Waithera and Mbadi are friends and even run a grocery business together.
On the said day, the accused opened her business but she was gloomy.
Mbadi asked her if she had a problem and she reluctantly asked why Mbadi had snatched her boyfriend.
A quarrel ensued but they later calmed down and continued with selling fruits.
Police said Waithera, while seated, started accusing the complainant had blocked her way.
“She pulled her down and started beating her on the face.”
“The accused also scratched her face and went on to bite her friend’s lower lip warning her never to kiss her boyfriend again,” the police said.
Mbadi was rescued by good Samaritans who came to separate the two and rushed the complainant to a nearby clinic.
She was treated and later reported the case after which investigations were launched leading to the arrest of the accused.
Waithera denied the charges before chief magistrate Heston Nyaga and prayed for lenient cash bail.
Nyaga released her on a cash bail of Sh10,000.Trial to proceed on October 30.
