After eight years of marriage and blessed with one child, a military officer brutally killed his wife in a domestic quarrel about four years ago.
The solider
was this week sentenced to three years imprisonment after stabbing his wife
severally and strangling her to death.
He was
charged for manslaughter after he surrendered to the military police camp in
Eldoret within four days of the crime.
Julius
Nangaki Barasa killed his wife after forcefully locking his five year old girl
and house-help in the Kitchen on November 28 th 2009.
Filled
with guilt and with a phone call from
his friend confirming his wife’s death , he traveled from his hide out in
Busia, Western province to face his seniors on December 1 st of 2009 at the camp.
They
resided at Umoja II at the heart of Eastland’s where neighbors managed to
rescue the house-help and the child who were locked up through the kitchen
balcony.
The
deceased, Nelly Juma was found lying dead on the sitting room floor. Her body
was bloody with stab wounds all over her face and neck. She was covered in a curtain and the husbands
shirt.
After
witnessing the gruesome sight of the mothers body lying in the kitchen floor,
the child recites how she begged her father to stop the fight before locking
them in the kitchen.
Since
the father is now in prison and her
mother passed away, at nine years old she lives with her grandmother today.
The
convict was ranked Private at the Kenya Army in Moi Airbase. He allegedly took a shower after the violent
night and immediately escaped the crime scene to his home in Western Kenya. He
left his daughter and the house help still locked in the kitchen but neighbors
came to their rescue after alarming them through the balcony.
Lying
next to the body on the crime scene was a broken knife and broken bottle glasses.
She had stabs all over her face and neck.
According to the postmortem, her cause of
death was due to Asphyxiation - manual strangulation and that the body had no defense
injuries. But Photos of the crime scene visibly exposed a broken knife lying
next to the deceased deeply wounded and blood stained body.
On the gruesome night, a confrontation occurred after the
deceased realized she left her bag at her salon less than 300 meters from their
house. She returned to collect the bag at about 8pm and arrived home to find
her husband furious. He rushed to the kitchen for a knife, despite his five
year old daughter’s intervention to stop.
On December 15 th of 2009 the convict was charged with manslaughter contrary to
section 202 as read with section 205 of the penal code on.
Former Makadara Chief Magistrate Martin Muya stated that the
accused must have strangled the wife to death.
His
behaviour of locking up his daughter and household in the kitchen , escaping
from the crime scene and showering were acts of guilt conscious.
The
fear of his arrest led him to flea instead of taking his wife to hospital
after her being unconscious. The two scenarios were different as night
and day.
His sh 500,000 bond for freedom was fruitless as the
state retained the money and he will serve his three year sentence at Kamiti
maximum prison.
Photos courtesy: Fransoir Images
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