Top 10 Most Horrific Murders in 2018
Justice delayed is justice denied; Kenyan families that have had the pain of losing their loved ones know this famous quote too well.
As 2018 clocks to an end, the section of families are yet to come into terms with how or why their loved ones had to be butchered in the most heinous ways.
Most painfully, these families are yet to get justice given the bureaucracy of our Justice system that delays cases over decades to the point that justice no longer tastes sweet when delivered leaving the victims’ families bitter.
Below are ten cases of the most gruesome murders in 2018 that saw young promising lives shattered in the most heinous way leaving their families devastated as they continue to walk the corridors of justice-seeking answers and closure.
- Sharon Otieno
The gruesome murder of 26-year-old Rongo University student Sharon Otieno and her 7-month old unborn child left the Country terrified given the cruelty it portrayed.
Sharon’s body was found at the Kodera forest on 4th September after she was reportedly kidnapped on 3rd September together with Nation Journalist Barack Oduor who jumped out of the speeding carjacker’s vehicle.
Sharon who was a mother of three had multiple stab wounds and, most spine-chilling, one of the stabs went straight into her womb revealing a lot of anger and bitterness from the killer. Exactly how does anybody live with themselves after such an act?
Sharon was in an intimate relationship with Migori Governor Okoth Obado who was the father of Sharon’s 7-month-old unborn child.
Governor Okoth Obado was arrested as the main suspect behind Sharon’s death together with his personal assistant, Michael Oyamo and Migori County clerk Caspal Obiero and the Governor’s bodyguard Elvis Omondi.
- Monica Nyawira Kimani
28-year old Monica Nyawira Kimani was found dead in her apartment in Kilimani at a time that could be said was the climax of her life financially.
Living in an uptown resident that most only see on social media, Monica had bought her mother a Subaru Impreza and was working on buying the father a Toyota V8. Monica was tied up, stuffed in a bathtub with her throat slit on 19th September 2018.
Citizen TV reporter Jacque Maribe and her fiancée Joseph Kuria Irungu aka Jowie were arrested following the murder with Jowie being the main murder suspect. Jacque was later released on bail with a number of conditions that barred her from getting involved in News production.
- Janet Wangui
46-year-old Janet Wangui Waiyaki was shot dead on 20th May 2018 at City Park but Bernard Chege whom Janet was accused of having an affair with.
According to a police statement, two officers knocked on the car’s tinted windows but there was no response. The car was then driven away which prompted the two officers to spray the car with 15 bullets, killing Janet and severely injuring Bernard.
Janet was said to have been in a compromising situation with the 26-year-old Bernard Chege, who was also her nephew, in the Toyota Fielder at the time of the shooting.
The lady’s husband George Kirubi, a business tycoon, was accused of sending police officers to kill the wife over her relationship with Bernard. Justice is yet to be felt on the case.
- Lucy Njambi
At only 24-years of age, Lucy who was a mother of one four-year-old boy met her death in the most horrific way.
Lucy was driven away from her apartment in Thindigua at night on 24th January 2018 by her husband Former Riruta Ward Representative Samwel Ndung’u in the company of three m