This archive report was first published on 14 October 2019.
On January 28, 2019, a heinous crime shook the quiet streets of Juja constituency. Mary Wambui Kamangara, a young woman, was brutally murdered by her husband's mistress, Judy Mungai.
According to court documents, Michael Mathenge, a taxi driver, witnessed the gruesome events unfold. He revealed that Judy Mungai pulled down the lifeless body of Mary Kamangara, wrapped in white bedclothes, and loaded it into a Mercedes-Benz belonging to Kamangara.
Mathenge wrote that they drove to Kiambu town using the Ruiru-Tatu-Kiambu road to Githunguri, where they stopped and threw the sisal bag, which he believed contained the blood-stained floor carpet.
From here, they drove to Kiamaiko shopping centre, where the woman parked the car and came to Mathenge's vehicle, barefooted. Mathenge claimed that with this mission accomplished, Mungai embarked on ensuring that he kept quiet over what he had seen, instructing that should the police call, he should maintain deniability.
Mathenge added that on the evening of January 28, Mungai called him and instructed that should the police call, he should say that he found her with her husband and Kamangara's body lying on the floor and in fear, left.
At the tail end of his statement, Mathenge spilled the beans, describing what he saw and offloading the weight of his guilt on Mungai. He dropped the bombshell: 'I wish to confirm [that] it is Judy who murdered the deceased right inside her Four Ways house. The husband whose name I came to know through the media (Joseph Kori Karue). I never saw him, neither in the house nor the compound.'
