Had engineer George Mwangi, a Rwanda-based contractor known that he would return home for holiday to be brutally murdered in his own bedroom by people close to him, then he would have most likely opted to remain in Kigali.
But as fate would have it, the 58-year-old husband and father of three who had returned home on September 13, was killed in cold blood hours before his return flight and his body dumped in Kieni forest, Kiambu county.
“As detectives investigating the murder most foul have gathered, Mwangi of Double M International based in Kigali, Rwanda, was killed following a love affair involving him and his mistress identified as Lucy Muthoni, a secretary at a local school,” the DCI tweeted.
According to DCI, the deceased’s wife Gladys Chania, a Kiambu-based politician who unsuccessfully vied for the Kiambu Woman Rep position in the last elections has been identified as the main suspect behind the murder.
Detectives based at the Crime Research & Intelligence Bureau and the Homicide department who are currently combing the scene of the murder, have recovered some of the murder weapons used to kill the Rwanda-based engineer hidden in the master bedroom, the primary scene of the murder.
The sleuths have also recovered blood-soaked bed sheets, curtains and clothes hidden in a locked room adjacent to the master bedroom.
Forensic experts based at the Crime Scene Investigations unit have also detected blood splatter patterns on the bedroom walls, wardrobe and along the stairway indicating that the father of three was killed in the house before his body was dumped kilometres away.
Mwangi was reported missing by his wife Gladys Chania, on October 11, 2022, at 8 pm at Mwea Police Post in Gatundu North, Kiambu County, vide OB No. 18/11/10/2022.
Casual labourers working in tea plantations located in Kamunyaka, discovered the deceased’s lifeless body which was wrapped in a polythene bag and covered under a heap of cartons on Wednesday, October 12, before informing the area chief who reported the discovery to authorities.
The investigations are still underway.
