Umoja woman arrested after boyfriend bleeds to death following fight

A 29-year-old woman has been arrested in Umoja after she stabbed her 33-year-old boyfriend to death.



Edward Okello, an aeronautical engineer at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, had an argument with his girlfriend, Vigilance Shighi, before the incident.



The matter was reported at Buruburu police station at around 8.30pm on Sunday by an officer attached to Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commision chairman – Wafula Chebukati.



Okello was reportedly rushed to Mama Lucy hospital bleeding profusely where he succumbed to his injuries while receiving treatment.



Thereafter, officers from Buruburu police station visited the house believed to be Okello’s and found a pool of blood believed to be Okello’s in the living room.



A kitchen knife believed to have been used as the murder weapon was also recovered.



The suspect told the police she was not aware of what had transpired but revealed that her boyfriend had been beating her at the time.



“He was holding me and he was beating me up. In my defence, I took a cup and threw at him and I do not know what happened I just saw him on the floor,” Shighi told the police.



“If you have to jail me for fighting, then I’m okay with that because I do not know what happened, he was on the floor asking me Viggie, what’s happening?”



She denied wielding the knife that had killed her lover but admitted there was a knife lying close by during their fight.



Sources have suggested the couple had been drinking together before the incident took place.