The Nakuru Law Courts was the scene of a dramatic turn of events on March 11, following a ruling read out by Justice Joel Ngugi.
Presiding during the bail hearing of Sharon Wangare,a woman who stood accused of killing her 5-year-old son; the judge cancelled her bail terms and ordered she be detained until her plea bargain agreement was resolved.
What ensued next looked like a scene straight out of a movie as the visibly incensed Wangare bolted out of the docks, took her other baby who was in court with her sister, and hurled the baby at the judge.
"Kill me and take this baby!" she screamed out as court security moved in to intercept her before she managed to escape during the commotion.
The suspected murderer went on to accuse the judge of bias,vowing that she was not going to prison.
On March 20, 2019, during her initial murder hearing, Wangare had confessed to killing her son in an attempted murder-suicide.
“I was disappointed when I woke up at midnight to find that we were both alive after taking poison the previous night,” she told the court.
She went on to narrate that after dinner on Saturday night March 16, 2019, she cooked up a concoction of drugs and took it together with her son, Maurice Karanja, because she wanted to die and not leave him behind.
She woke up in the middle of the night and the failure of her initial plan seems to have forced her to try again, this time using a kitchen knife.
Wangare then proceeded to murder her baby boy by stabbing him four times and confessed to having sat there watching and waiting for his heart to stop, before turning the blade on herself.
However, she sent a disturbing text to her boyfriend - John Karanja, before attempting to take her own life
“Jaribu kukuja kwetu ama mazishi utajua maiti iko na mashetani ni mimi, (I dare you to try and come to our home for the funeral, you will know that I am the devil),” reads the text she sent him.
The message was what pushed Karanja to rush to her house, where he found both of them lying on the floor.
“When I got to the house on Sunday morning, I found the two on the floor. She was holding a blood-stained kitchen knife in her left hand but could still move. She still had a pulse,” he told the Directorate of Criminal Investigation officers who were tasked with looking into the case.
She was then rushed to Bahati Sub-county hospital where she was given first aid then later taken to Nakuru Level Five hospital.
Wangare’s father, Joseph Njoroge, told the police that his daughter had been suffering from epilepsy and that she had been undergoing treatment at a clinic in Nakuru town.
