GIRL CONFESSES TO STABBING HER GRANDMOTHER 17 TIMES.

Just weeks after Lawrence Warunge killed 4 members of his family and a maison in Kiambu, a 22 year old girl has on Tuesday 19th January confessed to stabbing her grandmother.

22-year-old Mercy Wangari Gatimu has confessed to killing her grandmother, a 74-year-old Beatrice Karanja by stabbing her 17 times using a kitchen knife.

In a chilling narration, Wangari stated how she attacked her at her home, murdered her in cold blood, and hid the murder weapon in the pit latrine in the compound.

After the revelation that had left many shocked, Wangari led detectives to the two pit latrines where she had thrown the murder weapon, a metal rod that she used to hit her before stabbing her, and the clothes she was wearing at the time of the incident.

Her testimiony however contradicted with that of her father,Patrick Gatimu, who had earlier on confessed that he had killed Beatrice Karanja over a piece of land.

Patrick Gatimu told the police that he single-handedly killed his mother who was a retired teacher after she refused to give him land as demanded.

Preliminary investigations point to Mercy Wangari Gatimu being the killer and her father might have confessed to the murder just to take the fall for her. This is after the police established that the testimony given by Mercy marched the crime scene. Furthermore, it was Mercy that led detectives to where she had hit the murder weapon and used clothes.

The father was the first to be arrested and he confessed to that murder. However, he was not of much help to the police since his testimony contradicted the crime scene. It was a private detective who leaked to the police that Wangari was the true killer after his private investigation established that she had confessed to friends of having committed the murder and was planning to commit suicide.

Wangari and her father were presented on Tuesday at Kiambu High Court but no charges were preferred against them after detectives asked for 14 days to complete investigations.

In Kiambu county,Lawrence Warunge confessed to having killed his father, mother, brother, cousin, and farmhand. Lawrence too narrated how he used to hit each with a metal rod before stabbing them to death. He as well led detectives to the places he had hidden the knife, metal rod, and clothing after the incident. 

Source: Herald KE

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