Man Freed By The Police After Intentionally Maiming Wife With His Vehicle

According to reports from StandardMedia, the man identified as Stephen Gichuhi, ran over his wife, Margaret Wambui, with a car in Nairobi.

The 37-year-old mother of four, who has been detained at Nairobi Women’s Hospital for four months over unpaid bill, has accused her husband of running over her with a minibus after he accused her of infidelity on February 18, this year.

Gichuhi, then a bus driver plying the Wangige-Kiambu route asked her to accompany him to visit a neighbour but instead drove to the home of a politician he accused her of having a relationship with.

“They found me unpacking things from my car. I asked them if they needed any help. I thought they had come, just like many other constituents, looking for help.

”The man said the person they had come to see was not there. He then directed his wife to get into the matatu,”  the politician, who confirmed that the couple visited his house at around 7 pm said.

In addition to what the politician said, Wambui further stated that she and her hubby had a confrontation outside the politician’s home as her husband accused her of having an affair with the man and warned that he would not share her with other men while he was still alive and sped off.

“After a few metres, he opened the passenger door and violently pushed me out. I was not expecting this and clung desperately to the door which was swinging. Then I fell.”

After falling from the bus, Gichuhi stopped and then reversed and ran over her right leg, crushing it. He reversed again and drove over the leg a second time. An eyewitness, Julius Kimani was driving by and claims to have witnessed the incident.

“I was coming from the highway and had just branched into a feeder road. Then I saw a speeding matatu. The driver pulled over and started reversing as if he was looking for a way out as my vehicle was blocking the exit.

”I saw a woman clinging to the door of the matatu but then she fell. The driver reversed and ran over the woman’s leg.”

Kimani reportedly jumped out of the vehicle screaming as the matatu driver ran over the woman’s leg a second time.

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“I ran towards the driver and who started attacking me with his car keys but with the help of my brother, Joseph Maina, we subdued him, grabbed the keys and forced him to sit in the back of the vehicle.”

While his brother took over the bus at the scene, Kimani asked Gichuhi if he had money to so they could take the victim to the hospital but he said he had no money.

“I reassured him not to worry as I would show him where the money would come from. As I slowed down at some bumps before entering Kikuyu Police Station, he opened the door and vanished,” said Maina.

He said that at the police station there was no time to record a statement as the woman was screaming in pain. The two police officers at the report desk accompanied them to Kikuyu Hospital.

Wambui’s mother, Mary Nyambura, said she received the sad news the next day that her daughter had been admitted to the hospital adding that police at Kikuyu Police Station have never recorded the incident in the Occurrence Book and issued an “irrelevant” P3 form not captured in their records.