EX-JKUAT STUDENT FOUND GUILTY OF KILLING HIS GIRLFRIEND.

The former JKUAT student has been found guilty of killing his girlfriend a case which has been pending since 2014.

Marcel Jumanne Dalance has been found to have had a hand in the death of his lover Faith Vicky Awuor.

Marcel is now waiting for a probation report before sentencing.

Marcel and Faith were first year students at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT). The duo shared a room at Alpha house, an outside campus hostel.

Faith died in a fire, that which her lover claimed was an accident caused by electronic fault. Marcel’s alibi was that he was with two friends when the incident occurred.

Luckily enough, Faith had sent a text to one of her friends Mildred Owando, a fourth year student at University of Nairobi.

The text reads:

“Tables zimeturn (the tables have turned) Marcel and I are done for good. Wha, vitu zimekuwa moto, nitakwambia story, anataka kuniua (Wah, things are hot! I will tell you the story, he wants to kill me),”

This linked Marcel to the death of Faith declared Justice James Wakiaga.

Based on this evidence the Justice Wakiaga ruled:

“The victim’s dying declaration further proved circumstantial evidence linking the accused to the death and irresistibly point to his guilt. I have looked at the accused person’s defence in which he attempted to raise an alibi defence to the effect that he was not with the deceased at the time when the fire broke out and that he only came back and found the room on fire.

“However, it is clear from the evidence tendered that the accused was unable to account for his whereabouts from 10pm, when he parted ways with defence witnesses two and three,” he ruled.

It was then established on police investigator E Mwangangi’s testimony that Marcel’s story was not adding up.

Marcel told Mwangangi that Faith’s phone got burnt in the fire but he still had it. He also claimed that he left her making tea yet the kettle was not on and the gas cylinder did not explode.

13 witnesses were called by the state and Faith’s relatives, after the investigation it was determined that the position of Vicky’s body showed she had not attempted to escape from the burning room.

It was then concluded that she was killed before the room was set on fire.