{"id":919196,"date":"2022-01-24T15:11:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T15:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/24\/man-denies-killing-his-wife-and-four-children-at-kathata-village-in-kirinyaga\/"},"modified":"2022-01-24T15:11:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T15:11:03","slug":"man-denies-killing-his-wife-and-four-children-at-kathata-village-in-kirinyaga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/24\/man-denies-killing-his-wife-and-four-children-at-kathata-village-in-kirinyaga\/","title":{"rendered":"Man denies killing his wife and four children at Kathata village in Kirinyaga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"art-img row mx-md-0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/jwdwx9d3rwl7612uj61eeb71405255.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/strong><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\"><strong>Paul Murage Njuki is accused of killing his wife and four children.<\/strong> [Timothy Kariuki, Standard]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">A man accused of killing his wife and four children\u00a0last November in Kathata Village in Kirinyaga East Sub-county today denied five charges of murder.\n<\/p>\n<p>Paul Murage Njuki denied the charges when he appeared before High Court judge Richard Mwongo in Kerugoya.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>He was accused of murdering, on the night of November 28, 2021, his 38-year-old wife Millicent Muthoni, his daughters Nelly Wawira 13, and Shelmith Wambui, 5, as well as sons Gifton Bundi, 7, and Clifton Murage, 1. <\/p>\n<p>The suspect, through his State-assigned lawyer Heyi Bruno, applied to be released on bond, a plea that was opposed by State prosecutor Vincent Mamba.\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"vRHwR3_CnvI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Man surrenders himself to police after allegedly butchering his wife and four children\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vRHwR3_CnvI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution said the probation officer is yet to conduct an impact assessment on the impact of his possible release.\n<\/p>\n<p>The court directed the probation officer to submit a report within 14 days.\n<\/p>\n<p>Justice Mwongo ordered the accused be remanded at Kerugoya GK Prison until February 28 when the case will be mentioned.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001435412\/man-denies-killing-his-wife-and-four-children-at-kathata-village-in-kirinyaga\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Murage Njuki is accused of killing his wife and four children. [Timothy Kariuki, Standard] A man accused of killing his wife and four children\u00a0last November in Kathata Village in Kirinyaga East Sub-county today denied five charges of murder. Paul Murage Njuki denied the charges when he appeared before High Court judge Richard Mwongo in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}