Man kills his girlfriend, a college girl in Kitui

By PAUL MUTUA

A man killed a 23 year old college girl in Kitui County by stabbing her with a kitchen knife over strained relationship.

The man visited the girl’s parents’ home at Kavililo village, Nzauni location in Migwani District on Thursday afternoon before committing the murder.

The suspect lured his “girlfriend” Ms Stella Makaa Makuthu, a student at Mwingi East Teachers Training College, to her death by a telephone call as she relaxed at home with her sister-in-law.

Migwani OCPD Julius Muchira confirmed the incident that occurred at around 5.30pm, adding that the killer weapon and the suspect’s t-shirt was collected beside the deceased’s body which lay some few meters from the girl’s home.

Muchira said a manhunt had been launched to crackdown the suspect who works at a supermarket in Mwingi town and who fled after committing the murder.

The police boss said the murderer stabbed the deceased in her stomach, thigh and inflicted grievous cuts on her hands before leaving her for dead on a footpath near her parent’s home

A source close to the family confided to The Standard on Saturday that Stella first resisted the suspect’s advances to meet him outside their homestead’s compound before her body was recovered moments after the killing.

“The person asking me to meet him is my boyfriend whom we have differed. Why is he calling to ask me to meet him?”, the deceased reportedly told her relative in a tone of protest.

The body of the college girl has been moved to mortuary.

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