This archive report was first published on 7 January 2020.
On January 5, 2020, a domestic dispute turned violent when Paul Okato, a man accused of attempting to murder his wife, Police Constable Sharon Wamuyu, stabbed her twice.
Ms. Wamuyu, a police officer attached to the Nyahururu police station, sustained serious knife stabs on her chest and left hand during the incident at the Nyahururu police line in Nyahururu town, Laikipia County.
However, in a surprising turn of events, when Okato was arraigned in court on January 7, 2020, Ms. Wamuyu requested the magistrate to have the charges against him withdrawn, claiming she had already forgiven him.
Ms. Wamuyu told the court that she had made the decision out of her own free will, and had neither been threatened nor compelled to withdraw the charges.
The magistrate, Judith Wanjala, raised concerns about the lack of a P3 form, which is typically required in cases of domestic violence, and directed probation officer Polycarp Wandera to file a probation report to investigate the root cause of the dispute.
The case will be mentioned on January 13, 2020.
