Police assaults wife after she refused to buy him alcohol

Police are looking for their colleague who beastly attacked his wife in Gilgil, leaving her for dead. The 35-year-old Anti-Stock Theft officer reportedly bartered Gladys Wanjiru last Sunday afternoon at around 1pm, after she allegedly refused to give him money to buy alcohol.

“My husband came to the house at around 1pm, and demanded to have money for alcohol but after I denied him, he angrily attacked me together with his friend,” she said.

The woman claims her estranged husband also tried to strangle her using  an iron box cable. He then tied her up with a rope and left her unconscious inside the house at the police camp.

She sustained severe injuries on her neck, private parts, eyes and limbs. “I cried for help but nobody came to my rescue. My charged husband and his friend continued to beat me leaving me in an unconscious state,” she said.

Wanjiru claims her assailant threatened her against reporting the incident. She says once she regained consciousness senior officers asked her to leave the house and allow them solve the matter among themselves.

She reported the matter at Gilgil police station and later went for treatment at Gilgil sub county hospital.

She says she met her estranged husband in 2009. The couple later got married but she claims her husband has always been hostile towards her. She claims the couple separated three years ago but later reconciled. She also claims that another beating from the same man earlier this year caused her to suffer a miscarriage when she was six months pregnant.

Gilgil police boss Samuel Waweru said investigations aimed at arresting the officer are on. He said after the incident, the man is claimed to have gone on leave, and is not at his work station.

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