Kiambu Man Finds Ex-Wife Working In Mjengo, Allgedly Stabs Her To Death Before Escaping

• Police officers have launched a frantic search for a man who is suspected of brutally murdering his ex-wife in cold blood
• The suspect is believed to have forcibly taken Phylis to a nearby coffee farm after finding her working at a construction site
• He carried out a vicious attack on the farm moments later and left the 33-year-old's body sprawled on the ground

Kiambu - Police officers in Kiambu county have mounted a search for a man believed to have killed his ex-wife after he stormed her place of work.

Kiambu man attacks wife

The suspect, identified as HK, is believed to have attacked his former wife, Phylis Ngina Gachohi, as she was working on the ground floor of a mjengo site.

In a report by the Nairobi News, the armed Kiambu man forcibly took the woman to a nearby coffee farm, where he stabbed her in the stomach and neck.

“Before he committed the heinous act, he removed a makeshift ladder to the upper floors of the building with the aim of barring other masons from reaching where he had picked a quarrel with the woman,” the police said.

The woman's colleagues, however, rushed to the coffee farm minutes later and found her lifeless body sprawled on the ground.

The suspect had already vanished by the time of masons' arrival at the scene of crime.

The masons immediately alerted the police about the heinous crime, and upon arrival, they took the woman's remains.

Man allegedly kills wife over cheating

In a separate incident, a 66-year-old man is being held in police custody over the gruesome death of his 40-year-old wife, whom he allegedly killed in cold blood.

Kyeyune Aloysius is said to have hacked his wife to death over denial of conjugal rights and cheating accusations, ending their tumultuous marriage.

According to a statement from the Uganda Police Force, the couple was said to be in a toxic marriage and was even sleeping in separate bedrooms.

"On the fateful day, the suspect picked a jembe and hit the victim on the head, killing her instantly. The motive of the killing was established to be jealousy after the suspect accused his wife of denying him his conjugal rights and cheating on him, with other men in their marital home," the police statement indicated.