Purity Muthoki now has no hands thanks to the man she once saw as a friend and lover in an incident that has left the residents of Kya Mavui village in Mbooni, Makueni County in shock.
There is a saying that there is a thin line between love and hate and with the current COVID-19 outbreak when depression cases are spiking, more hate is brewing in most homes than love.
The thin line between love and hate thinned to the extreme for one Boniface Mutua and his separated wife Purity Muthoki.
Boniface Mutua has been accused of chopping his wife’s hands using a machete after he visited her in the pretext of seeking to reconcile with her, a trip he was making for the tenth time.
Purity Muthoki’s hands have been amputated by the husband at only 24 years of age for her refusal to return and live with the same man said to have been violent towards her previously.
When Boniface Mutua arrived at Purity Muthoki’s parents’ home on Saturday at around 9pm, Purity’s parents did not foresee the young man’s intentions as it was not the first visit he was making to their home.
“Since he has been visiting us here since the time, they parted ways with my daughter, we did not suspect he would end up doing such a thing. When he came, I left to finish some work in the neighborhood,” said Makau.
After all, Boniface Mutua was not a stranger to them as he had father their daughter’s, Purity Muthoki’ 10-year-old son.
The Muthoki’s left their daughter Purity behind at their home with Boniface Mutua not knowing that their daughter’s husband had travelled from Yatta, Machakos with the intention to harm her and had even carried a machete with him.
“I heard loud cries from my home and as I returned to see what was happening, I met the man at the door in a rush to sneak out,” Muthoki narrated.
Purity’s Father narrates that he found everything in the house in a mess with blood oozing from the joints where his daughters had been amputated.
Purity was rushed to Makueni Referral Hospital where she is currently where her two hands which were almost falling off were amputated by Doctors who reported that she suffered 31 cuts on several body parts.
“We did resuscitation when the patient was brought in before taking her to theatre when we managed to amputate her two upper limbs,” said Dr Athman Lugogo of Makueni Referral Hospital.
The fate for Boniface Mutua was sealed as villagers caught him as he flees and stoned him to death after which authorities moved his body to Tawa Mortuary.
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