A 30-year-old police officer stationed at the Kiwanja Police Post in Kahawa West, Nairobi County, was hacked to death on Friday by her husband after an alleged domestic altercation in Webuye, Bungoma County.
The deceased, police constable Tiffany Wanyonyi, and her husband, 40-year-old Jackson Oloitele, had travelled upcountry to attend the funeral of her late grandmother, who was buried in Misemwa village on Thursday.
The exact sequence of events leading to Wanyonyi's brutal murder remains unclear, but police reports state that an argument between the pair escalated into the fatal attack.
"The deceased's body was found lying dead on the bed with several deep cuts on the neck and multiple injuries on the head, suspected to have been inflicted by a sharp object. A panga suspected to be the murder weapon was recovered from the scene," a police report documenting the incident reads in part.
The husband has so far surrendered himself to police station.