Evans Michori Kebwaro, the man who confessed to his involvement in a series of brutal murders targeting women in Nakuru's Mawanga area in Bahati in 2022 has been sentenced to 10 years in jail.
Michori, the prime suspect who was turned into a State witness, is already serving a 28-year jail term for the murder of two of the women.
He and four others hit the headlines in 2022 after they were arrested and linked to a series of murders in the area.
Michori could later confess that he was the leader of the Confirm gang that killed the women. He pleaded guilty to the murders and agreed to testify against his four accomplices.
On Tuesday, he was handed a 10-year jail term for the murder of a third woman, Susan Wambui, a crime he is said to have committed on June 21, 2022.
"Since the accused already admitted that he was involved in the murders and based on the plea bargain entered before this court, he will serve a 10-year-jail term," stated Justice Nangea in his judgment.
Kebwaro who was charged alongside five accomplices with the murder of Wambui and three other women had initially denied the offences.
However, last year, he changed his mind and struck a plea bargain agreement with the prosecution and pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges, which attract a lesser punishment.
He is currently serving two concurrent prison terms for the murder two other women, namely Diana Opicho and Beatrice Akinyi.
On November 13, Justice Hedwigs Ong’udi sentenced Michori to serve 12 years in prison, for the murder of 20-year-old Akinyi, a domestic worker at her employer’s house on December 2, 2021.
On November, another judge, Patricia Gichohi, sentenced him to serve 28 years in prison for the murder of 23-year-old Diana, killed at her home on June 24, 2022.
His accomplices were Kevin Omondi,Josphat Simiyu,Julius Otieno,Dennis Alusiola and Isaac Kinyanjui.
In a detailed confession, Michori narrated how he and the other gang members carefully planned and executed the murders.
It began with a meeting at the Nakuru South cemetery in Nakuru East sub-County on June 20, 2022, the eve of the deadly robbery mission on Ms Wambui’s home in Mawanga Estate in Bahati, which had been identified by one of the gang members.
On the day they executed the robbery, Ms Wambui was resting in the living room with her daughter who was sleeping on the couch.
After they established that the occupants of the house were present, one of the gang members went to distract the woman by pretending to buy something at the shop attached to the house, while the rest of them gained access to the main house by jumping through the iron sheet wall at the backyard.
"Simiyu was leading the team and entered the shop where the deceased was. He was armed with a Maasai sword and the deceased got scared. Kevin entered the shop from the front and closed the door. He asked the deceased for money and she said she would look for some," said Michori.
One of the gangsters went into the cash box and scooped the money therein. Another member allegedly dragged the woman into her bedroom in which Michori failed to disclose what they did to her.
Two gangsters joined the room and when he went there, he claimed to have found Wambui lying unconscious on the floor.
"Two of them lifted the body of the woman and put it on the bed. Another brought Petrol and poured it inside the bedroom and the sitting room where the child was sleeping," stated Michori.
He then lit a matchbox as they fled the house, leaving the two inside. They jumped over the window and hopped onto their motorbikes and fled towards Makuru town.
Neighbours who saw the smoke rushed to the scene and found it locked from the inside. The child was also screaming.
They broke the padlock and rescued the unhurt child, but the mother was lying unconscious on the bed.
They rushed her to Mediheal Hospital where she succumbed to injuries and a post-mortem conducted on June 24 revealed that she died from strangulation.
The police traced Michori to his rural home in Kisii where he was hiding before he revealed his accomplices including Kevin Omondi, Josphat Simiyu, Julius Otieno, Dennis Alusiola and Isaac Kinyanjui. They were charged on August 2, 2022.
