She was raised in poverty and violence. When she married early and realised life had not improved, she turned to crime, writes JUMA KWAYERA.
In June 1999, a woman commanding a gang of criminals ambushed a Kenya Commercial Bank van ferrying Sh162 million from Meru. The ambush aborted, unmasking the face of the woman behind a decade of terror, meted with abandon in Nairobi and its surroundings.