When school principal hired criminals to execute husband

Jane Muthoni at Langata Women's Maximum Prison, Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

When Kiru Boys High School Principal Solomon Mwangi disappeared, no one would have known that his wife Jane Muthoni was the planner and executor of his death.

The secret was revealed through the confession of one of the accused persons, Joseph Kariuki.

In his ten-page confession read in court, Kariuki admitted that he participated in the murder of Mwangi on November 6, 2016. Jane Muthoni had promised to pay him Sh400,000.

He stated that he met Muthoni who informed him and another killer, Isaac Ng’ang’a, that she wanted to eliminate her husband. They later hatched the plot and how to execute the job.

On November 4, 2016, he stated that they met with Muthoni who informed them that she would disable her husband with tranquilizers and hand him over to them to execute the killing.

The following day, Muthoni delivered her unconscious husband to them in a car.

During the hearing of the case, it was stated that they drove to a forest, tied a rope around his neck and hanged him from a tree where his decomposing body was discovered eight days later.

Muthoni and Ng’ang’a were found guilty of the murder and sentenced to 30 years in jail each while Kariuki was handed a seven-year jail term after a plea bargaining.