A 40-year-old man in Suba, Homa Bay County, has surrendered to the police after confessing to killing his ex-wife while fighting over child custody.
The man walked into Gingo Police Post on Wednesday afternoon and reported that he killed his former spouse in a domesticrow.
The suspect was promptly placed under custody.
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Suba South sub-County Police Commander Caxstone Ndunda said the suspect showed up at the police post carrying a blood-stained machete.
'A team of officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) from Magunga were assigned to handle the case,' he said.
Mr Ndunda said the suspect dismembered the womans body after killing her.
Both her hands were chopped off with her head bearing deep cuts, Mr Ndunda explained.
Before the murder, the man is said to have been working on his farm together with the three children he sired with the deceased.
The minors are said to have watched in horror as their father killed their mother.
The suspect and the deceased lived together as husband and wife before they separated more than three years ago.
The woman remarried in Kisegi in Gwassi North ward about 15 kilometres from her first home. The man had also remarried.
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