Jowie’s Explanation of Monica Kimani’s Murder: “He Shot Himself” After Fight with Maribe Over SMS
Jowie Irungu, the suspect in the murder of Monica Kimani, regaled the court on Thursday with details of the night he allegedly shot himself, following a dispute with his then-girlfriend Jackie Maribe.
As the murder trial of businesswoman Monica Kimani continues. Irungu appeared before Lady Justice Grace Nzioka at the Milimani law courts.
He told the court that the gun accidentally discharged at Maribe’a’s residence. Shortly after a heated argument over text messages he discovered on her phone.
Irungu told the court, “We had another argument over a message I saw on her phone, and we hurled insults at each other.”
“I grew weary and threw my clothes outside; I wanted to leave the house because the same message kept repeating, and I was so drunk and angry that I didn’t want to listen to her at all, whatever I had witnessed,”
He claims he was moving his clothes from Maribe’s home and throwing them outside. When the gun discharged and a bullet struck him in the chest.
“Therefore, when I was rearranging my clothing, the gun discharged and struck me in the chest, so I went to my neighbor Brian,” he continued.
The court also heard how he came to possess the allegedly neighbor-owned firearm.
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“Brian had brought the gun because they were fighting with the wife,” he said.
According to Irungu, he gave the police a contradictory account of his bullet wound. Because the gun’s owner, Brian, warned him that he would be in trouble if word got out that he had obtained it illegally.
“Brian gave me the story that I was attacked by thugs because he illegally obtained the gun, and he said that if we told the truth, he would be in trouble,” he added.
According to Irungu, Maribe informed their neighbor that he had shot himself. Before driving to a hospital in Langata in Maribe’s car.
“They brought me to the hospital in Langata, but they were not prepared for us, so they brought me to the hospital in Nairobi,” Irungu explained.
“Brian later dropped us off at our house, and in the morning I didn’t wake up until 11 a.m. when Jackie’s mother arrived,”
Irungu claims that he learned he was a suspect in Ms. Kimani’s death while watching television.
He testified in court that at approximately 6:45 a.m. the next morning. Police officers knocked on his door and interrogated him.
“They demanded my car keys, phone, cup, and the clothes I was wearing,” he added. “They took me to the Langata police station, confiscated my passport, and transported me to the Kilimani police station.”
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“I was taken to DCI, where a woman showed me a CCTV video and asked if it was me; I said no, but she insisted that it was me; I learned what I was accused of by watching television,”
Irungu, who was released from Kamiti after approximately two years on a Ksh 2 million cash bond. Denied knowing the deceased Monica.
“I don’t know Monica, but I do know her brother George. “We attended school with him in 2012, but we never met again because I left the country; we later reconnected on Instagram, but we were to meet at forty-forty, a place I frequented,” Irungu told the court.
“I’ve never interacted with her, and I didn’t even have her phone number,”
Irungu also cast doubt on claims that he had requested paraffin from his neighbor. To “burn some stuff” during the hearing. He asserted that his neighbor was fabricating a story to protect himself.
“That is a lie; he was trying to cover up for himself, as I did not call anyone and none of my clothes were missing or burned,” he continued.
Jowie’s Explanation of Monica Kimani’s Murder: “He Shot Himself” After Fight with Maribe Over SMS
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