A woman has pleaded guilty to plotting to kill her husband by hiring gangsters who turned out to be police officers from the Flying Squad Unit.
Faith Wairimu Maina admitted before senior principal magistrate Peter Ndwiga that she wanted to get rid of John Muthee Guama, her husband of 16 years and father of their two children, as a result of “long-running domestic problems”.
“It is true I conspired to kill him because he has been beating me and not paying school fees for the children. I am everything in the house; his only work is to drink and move around with other women,” said Wairimu.
According to the facts of the case read by Chief Inspector Daniel Thuku, the couple had been experiencing domestic wrangles over allegations that Mr Guama was having an affair with a woman identified as Njeri Waamba.
Fearing that he could leave her for another woman, she hatched a plan to eliminate him through a hit squad so that she could be left with the family property.
She approached an acquaintance known as Mama Kevo with a view of hiring the hit squad, who in turn approached a Mr Wilson Mwangi.
“Mr Mwangi immediately informed the officer in-charge of Flying Squad who then assigned officers Moses Gitwahi, Joseph Langat and Peter Nderitu to carry out the investigations,” said Mr Thuku.
