Man Jailed For 50 Years For Blocking Wife's Genitals With Super Glue

The case dragged on for more than two years with Kifo denying committing the offence.

Marvin Chege Marvin Chege
Dec 24, 2022 - 09:33 Updated: Dec 24, 2022 - 09:35
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Man Jailed For 50 Years For Blocking Wife's Genitals With Super Glue
A police car inside a crime scene. /FILE

A man who sexually assaulted his wife by sealing her genitalia with super glue has been sentenced to 50 years in prison.

James Kifo Muriuki was handed the jail term by Chuka Law Courts in Tharaka Nithi County while appearing before Principal Magistrate Njoki Kahara. He was found guilty of sexually assaulting his wife and causing grievous harm to her on May 16, 2020.

On the fateful day, Kifo had lured his wife to river Kathita in Marimanti at night and ordered her to strip naked while confessing to him all the men she had slept with while he was living away in Nairobi.

James Kifo arrives at Chuka GK Prison. /CITIZEN DIGITAL

On being hesitant, Kifo began to beat her before he sprayed pepper, salt and super glue on her genitalia. He then used a knife to push the mixture into the victim’s genitalia.

On May 21, 2020, Kifo was arrested in his hideout at Kaningo in Kitui County by a combined team of Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) detectives from the Special Crime Unit, DCI Tseikuru and DCI from Tharaka South Sub County.

He was hiding in the house of one James Murogi who was believed to practice witchcraft.

The case dragged on for more than two years with Kifo denying committing the offence.

On Thursday, December 1, a Nairobi court sentenced a man who caused grievous bodily harm to a woman he was on a date with, by throwing her off the 12th floor of a building, to five years in prison.

Moses Njoroge was found guilty of committing the offence against Eunice Wangari on September 13, 2020, after they allegedly met for a date in Nairobi CBD.

Milimani principal magistrate Esther Kimilu convicted Njoroge after he was found to have thrown off Wangari from the 12th floor to the ninth floor after they met on Facebook. She however had mercy on him in pronouncing the five-year sentence as the mandatory sentencing was life in prison.

Another case involving domestic violence saw rally driver Asad Khan die on Sunday, December 18 after he was allegedly assaulted by World Rally Championship (WRC) Safari Rally driver Maxine Wahome.

Asad was fighting for his life at the High Dependency Unit (HDU) at the Avenue Hospital in Nairobi following a domestic spat which led to his girlfriend Wahome arrested.

Despite being later released on a Ksh100,000 cash bail, she is being investigated over an offence of causing grievous bodily harm which might lead to a lengthy jail term if she is charged with murder and convicted.

Collage of the late rally driver Asad Khan and Maxine Wahome. /FILE

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