This archive report was first published on 17 July 2019.
Ms Rosemeg Wambita is in pain, but not because of her 39-year-old son Quincy Timberlake's conviction in an Australian court. It's because of the recent confession by her daughter-in-law Esther Arunga, who pleaded guilty to being an accessory to murder.
Ms Arunga admitted to lying to police in a bid to shield her husband from punishment, but Ms Wambita wants to hear nothing of that. In an interview at her rented house in Mbeme, Kisumu County, she vehemently denied Ms Arunga's claims while defending her son.
Ms Wambita, who described Timberlake as a God-fearing child, said she does not believe her daughter-in-law's testimony. She questioned why Ms Arunga accepted to live with a killer if she truly believed her husband was guilty.
Ms Wambita last met her son in Nairobi in 2009, but she has not found an opportunity to talk to him since. She has tried to reach out to well-wishers and her MP to help her travel to Australia for she wants to know the truth.
Ms Wambita left everything to God, but she believes her son will prove his innocence to his accusers. A postmortem report showed Sinclair died from blunt force trauma to his abdomen at the family home in Kallangur, Australia, in 2014.
