Cold blood: Wife’s lover cut off hubby’s head during sex

The trial of a 32-year- old Kenyan woman who colluded with her lover to kill her husband has started.

Armina Ekkehart initiated sex with her husband Ekkehart, and while in the act, her lover, Jan D, whom he had earlier on allowed into the house, came from behind with a machete and chopped off her husband’s head.

On Tuesday night September 19, 2016, Armina is alleged to have let her lover into the house hours earlier, given him a machete, gloves and a mask and then hid him in the basement.

When her husband got home, Armina lured her husband to the bedroom to have sex, giving Jan an opportunity to sneak out of his hiding place and behead Ekkehart.

Jan also attempted to cut of Ekkehart’s shin, but missed, cutting off Armina’s Achilles tendon. The attack happened at around 10:40pm. Luckily, the couple’s two children, were asleep and did not see what happened.

After the gory murder, Jan ran off while Armina started wailing for help from neighbours, saying she had been attacked by three masked men.

She was taken to hospital where she claimed someone has been threatening her husband, and implicated her boyfriend Jan. Amina and Ekkehart met in Kenya as the businessman was on holiday and they got married in 2007.

Their marriage was riddled with affairs. Armina’s two children are said to have been with Jan D. and not Ekkehart.

Although Eckhardt and Armina lived together, the couple had filed for divorce and were separated.

On Friday, three days after hospitalisation, 38 year old Armina  told reporters that although she couldn’t remember the exact details on what happened, she can only remember a group of three men coming into their home.

“I’m afraid. Everything happened so fast. My memory is returning slowly, but I can only recall three men. It can’t be motivated by jealousy, must be something else,” Armina said from her hospital bed on the motive behind the attack.

Almost a month after the attack in November, the police would find out that Armina was a key accomplice in the case.

The police arrested Armina’s ex-boyfriend Jan D. who confessed even before being taken into custody. Jan’s confession also made the whole process easier and the cops were able to recover the 70cm machete used for the attack from Jan.

Reports in the media at the time mentioned that Armina had been shocked by the discovery.

She revealed to BILD, the high circulation German tabloid, that she had spoken to Jan before the attack and he had even visited her and taken care of the children.

“This is all so shocking. Jan had visited us before the incident and we sat outside in the garden as he played with the girls. He was so caring and loving to the girls. I don’t understand this,” Armina said, when she found out that Jan had been taken into police custody.

“I spoke to him earlier in the week and everything seemed normal.” Jan who is said to be very social had spent the day after the attack with friends going out on a drinking spree.

Armina had told BILD that someone had been threatening her husband and had promised to kill him. The name Armina revealed was not made public, but the interview was done before Jan had been arrested.

Right after Jan’s arrest, Armina said she had promised Ekkehart to stop the affair with Jan, a decision he was not pleased with. Jan had then continued to threaten Ekkehart and had promised to kill him.

The state prosecutor does not believe that Jan worked alone and the investigations are still on to find out who the other accomplices might have been.

According to another media outlet, Chemnitzer Morgenpost, the state prosecutor believes that Armina was the brain behind the whole incident.

Last week on Thursday, not completely healed and still on a wheel chair, Armina was wheeled into a police car and driven to the police station where she was booked as an accessory to the murder of her husband. Armina’s two children have been taken away by the authorities and their location hidden.

The incident that shocked residence of Ebersdorf has seen Armina labelled “die schwarze Witwe von Ebersdorf” (the black widow of Ebersdorf).

The trial began on 7th June, a day before Armina and Ekkehart’s would be 10th wedding anniversary. Armina is yet to answer to the charges since her arrest. The trial will run for eleven days and will see 62 witnesses and seven experts weigh in on the matter.