Widow of Slain Kiiru Boys High School Principal Found Guilty of His Murder

Jane Muthoni, the widow of slain Kiiru Boys High School principal Solomon Mwangi has been found guilty of murdering her husband.

On Thursday, Nakuru High Court judge Joel Ngugi convicted Muthoni and her co-accused Isaac Ng'ang'a of murder charges and set May 18th as the sentencing date.

Mwangi went missing on November 6th, 2016, and his lifeless and mutilated body was found dumped at Karakuta Coffee Estate in Juja, Kiambu county on November 14th, 2016.

Muthoni, the former principal of Icaciri Secondary School in Kiambu, was accused of hiring assassins to kill her husband but she defended herself, saying that it was one of Mwangi’s associates who eliminated him following a failed school transfer deal.

She alleged that a cartel that facilitated transfers and promotions of teachers in the region was unhappy after Muthoni was promoted to the position of headteacher at Icaciri Secondary while her husband was transferred to Kiiru Boys without their “influence.”

Muthoni added that the cartel demanded Sh1 million from her husband and went ahead to kill him after he refused to comply, and framed her for the murder.

But the prosecution submitted that Muthoni hired four men to execute Mwangi on suspicion that he was having an extra-marital affair.

Key suspect Joseph Kariuki was handed a seven-year jail sentence after confessing to playing part in the murder alongside Nelson Njiru, who is still at large.