This archive report was first published on 29 August 2019.
On 26 August 2019, a gruesome honour killing shook the quiet village of Lereshwa in Kipipiri, Nyandarua County, Kenya. Peter Ng'ang'a, a 36-year-old man, brutally murdered his 36-year-old wife, Teresiah Wanjiru, and cut her body into pieces.
Ng'ang'a then stuffed the remains in a bag and dumped them in a pit latrine at a deserted nursery school. However, his heinous crime did not go unnoticed for long.
On the following day, 27 August 2019, a mob in Karunga, Gilgil, Nakuru County, Kenya, lynched Ng'ang'a after he fled to the area.
The incident was reported by the couple's 13-year-old daughter, who had been locked in the house with her nine-year-old brother as their mother was being beaten and dragged to a maize field.
According to Kipipiri subcounty police commander Ireri Mwaniki, Ng'ang'a lied to the children that their mother had gone to their grandmother's home at Miharati.
However, bloodstains led the police and residents to the nursery school, where they found the body minus the head. Mwaniki recalled,
"When we shone the torch inside (the pit latrine) we could see the hands and intestines but not the head. We dug around the pit and used a ladder to retrieve the body,"
he said.
