BY WINSTONE MUSISI
A former Moi university medical student, Ivy Wangeci, failed to report to Eldoret police station over threats on her life a few days before she was eventually brutally killed by her estranged boyfriend, an Eldoret court heard today.
Dr Amina Hassan, close friend and former college-mate of the slain final year student at the university’s school of medicine told Justice Stephen Githinji that Wangeci took lightly the threat on her life by Naflai Kinuthia by failing to report the matter to the police station.
Testifying in the murder trial of Kinuthia who is accused of Wangeci, Hassan narrated to the packed court how he pleaded with her former classmate and close friend not take the threatening messages sent to her by her estranged boyfriend lightly, and advised her to report the matter
to the police to no avail.
Hassan recounted to the court how the accused person travelled from Nairobi where he worked to visit Wangeci in Eldoret and that at on several occasion he would buy them dinner at one of the high class joints in the outskirt of the town.
“He would come and take us for dinner and pay all the bills before driving us back to our university hostel. He did not exhibit a character of a violent or cruel person for the period I knew him through Wangeci,” Hassan told the Judge.
Kinuthia has denied involvement in the killing of Ivy Wangeci when he was arraigned before the High Court in Eldoret two years ago
The suspect has been in Eldoret GK remand prison since he was arrested on April 9, 2019 in connection with the grisly murder of the slain Moi University medical student on the fateful day.
He was accused of planning and executing the killing of the medical student which shocked the country on April 9, outside the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret and subsequently charged on April 30 with the student’s murder.
Kinuthia allegedly hacked Wangeci twice on the head with the axe and efforts by boda boda riders who were near the scene to save the student failed as he threatened them with the weapon.
He was later attacked by an angry mob and beaten up before police officers who were on patrol came to his rescue and took him to the hospital for treatment.
The deceased was in her final stages of completing her studies and had just finished her ward rounds at MTRH when Kinuthia allegedly accosted her a few metres outside the facility’s gate.
Justice Githinji adjourned the hearing of the case to Thursday at 9am