BY SAM ALFAN.
A woman has been sent to jail for stabbing a man to death under unclear circumstances.
Teresiah Mueni Kilonzo was found guilty of killing Maxwell Nyambane Moranga on March 4, 2015 at Dandora Phase IV.
The court also acquitted Wyclife Okweba Onchiri who was accused alongside Mueni.
Justice Jessie Lessit while delivering the Judgement found that Mueni had motive and malice when she stabbed the deceased.
On the day Moranga was killed, a prosecution witness, his cousin and Onchiri were hosted in a house by Mueni and her two girlfriends.
The three ladies were drunk and Mueni complained of feeling like vomiting, so one of her girlfriends pulled out a basin and placed it in front of her.
At this point is when the deceased knocked on the door and called out the first prosecution witness by name and as he stood to open the door, Mueni who was next to the door took a knife from under the table in the house opened the door and stabbed the deceased once on his chest and closed the door.
She was then disarmed by Onchiri.
In her Judgement, Justice Lessit ruled that Mueni’s choice of a knife, her choice to stab the deceased on the chest all show that her actions were deliberate and calculated to cause grievous harm or death.
“The first accused leaving the scene without any care as to the condition of the deceased is a proof of indifference for what she had done. I find that the prosecution had proved malice aforethought as against the first accused,” ruled the Judge.
Justice Lessit, dismissed claims that Mueni was drunk when she committed the act noting that she knew what she was doing.
“I find that her mind was not under the influence of alcohol as to make her incapable of knowing what she had done. I find that the defense of intoxication does not apply to the case,” Justice Lessit ruled.
