The court on Thursday sentenced Janet Karamana, wife to Moses Gituma, a former senior officer at the Central Bank of Kenya, to hang after evidence revealed that she hired thugs to kill Gituma in his own home.
Gituma died on March 2, 2010 after the October 23, 2009 attack that left him in a vegetative state.
The court heard that Karamana sneaked into her compound in Garden Estate with four attackers, after declining a ride from her neighbour and customer, in the guise that she was waiting for a carpenter to fix a leaking roof of her salon, located near her home.
The Court was told that after bypassing the security at the gate, Karamana who was in the company of the four men knocked her own door, which was opened by the househelp.
Upon entering the house the four assailants locked up the whole family- Karamana, two children and the house help-in the toilet and waited for their victim for almost 6 hours.
Gituma who arrived home at around 2 am, met his killers who brutally beat him up in the wee hours of the morning until he lost consciousness. According to evidence presented before the court the attackers then fetched Karamana to inform her that the work was done.
Karamana then drove her husband's killers away from the compound using Gituma's car.
She however denied the charges but the three-bench judge presiding over the case ruled that the evidence well pointed to her.
“There is no doubt that the attack on the deceased was meant to cause him injury. There was no evidence that this was a robbery gone bad. There is available evidence that the assailants were so patient that they asked for the deceased and waited for him until 2am,” the judges were quoted by the Standard.
Police investigations later unveiled that Karamana paid the hitmen Sh30,000 to attack her husband.
The deceased suffered head, mouth and face injuries which he succumbed to after 6 months.
Karamana faces a death sentence alongside Clement Munyao and Anthony Mati as there was no sufficient evidence to convict the two other accomplices, Evans Obangi and Peter Maina.
