A man has gone into hiding after allegedly stabbing his girlfriend to death in Nairobi’s Lang’ata estate.
According to the parents, the deceased Naneu Muthoni had been urged to leave alone the boyfriend who was reportedly mistreating her.
But on the fateful day she went back to his house where she was found dead with several stab wounds.
On Saturday evening when Muthoni left their house in Sinai Court, she promised not to stay for long. The mother, who had retired to bed, was woken by a phone call at from Muthoni around 2.30am.
“My wife received the call, but there was no response from the caller,” the girl’s father recalled.
Alarmed, they called back several times, but the calls went unanswered. In the morning, the parents went to church hoping that their daughter was safe. But they did not find her home when they returned.
By evening there was no sign of Muthoni and her three phones had been switched off. The parents called relatives and Muthoni’s friends, but no one knew where she was.
The following morning before reporting to her business place, the mother went to Muthoni’s boyfriend’s house where she found no sign of life.
“The mother was unable to gain entry into the house since the door was locked,” said the father.
The mother left, only to receive a phone call at around 11am from a friend asking her to go back to Wimbi Court, where the boyfriend lived in a servant’s quarters.
She felt something was wrong when she noticed a crowd and police vehicles.
“I could not believe that was my daughter lying on the couch with blood splatted all over on the floor and walls; the place was a mess. My daughter didn’t deserve such a gruesome death,” the father recalled.g.
The daughter’s naked body had multiple stab wounds. A postmortem is expected to be conducted today at the Montezuma Monalisa Funeral Home.
Police say the man is a person of interest since he was the last to be seen with Muthoni.
