Gory details on how the lifeless body of Mary Kamangara was disposed off by Judy Mungai her husband’s side chic has emerged.
The mutilated body of Mary Wambui Kamangara was found dumped in a dam near Mugutha estate in Juja constituency in January 2019.
According to court documents, Michael Mathenge a taxi driver could hear Judy pulling down the lifeless body of Mary Kamangara.
Mathenge told investigators that Judy Mungai left him stranded at the parking lot and went for the body.
He would hear Mungai pull down the stairs something heavy wrapped in white bedclothes and loaded it into the Mercedes-Benz that belonged to Kamangara.
“..SHE PUSHED IT INTO THE REAR SEAT [THROUGH THE LEFT DOOR] AND WALKED TO THE RIGHT SIDE AND PULLED IT INSIDE BEFORE CLOSING BOTH DOORS,” HE SAID.
Mathenge wrote that they would then drive to Kiambu town using the Ruiru-Tatu-Kiambu road to Githunguri where they would stop and throw the sisal bag
“WHICH I BELIEVED CONTAINED THE BLOOD-STAINED FLOOR CARPET”.
From here, he wrote, they drove to Kiamaiko shopping centre where the woman parked the car and “came to my vehicle while having her house car keys. I noted she was barefooted.’
Mungai then returned to the house and returned with a two black nylon paper bags with items inside before telling him that he would escort her to Kimbo area.
“THAT SHE SHALL GIVE INSTRUCTIONS [ONCE THERE].”
Both of them driving and him being in the front, they passed the gate with his car being searched and Mungai passing without a search.
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She would them drive past him and in a short distance, stop at Kiambu Road junction.
“WHERE SHE REPEATED TO ME THAT HER INSTRUCTIONS SHOULD BE STRICTLY FOLLOWED AND THAT I PUT OFF MY PHONE AS SHE WATCHED AND SAID THAT IF I TRY TO TRICK HER, I SHALL BEAR THE CONSEQUENCES.”
They drove toward Kiambu town and at the T-junction to Ruiru, Kamiti Road, they encountered a police checkpoint and were stopped.
“MY VOXY WAS WELL SEARCHED EVEN INTO THE BOOT AND INSIDE…HERS WAS NOT WELL CHECKED, HENCE LET THROUGH,” HE WROTE.
They drove through Ruiru to Juja toll area before refilling at Regnol Petrol Station. They then took a murram road along Theta River to Gatundu but drove back to refuel her car.
Driving back again from Regnol filling station, the stopped in between Theta river at Courtesy dam “and she came to my car and told me that ‘this is my last destination, wait as I finish my mission’.”
“SHE WALKED DOWN TO THE DAM BANK AND CAME BACK TO HER CAR. SHE ENTERED AND REVERSED UP TO THE BANK, AND THEN USING THE LEFT DOOR. SHE PULLED DOWN THE LUGGAGE WRAPPED IN A WHITE CLOTH TOWARDS THE WATER EDGE, SHE UNFOLDED THE OBJECT OFF THE CLOTH AND CARRIED THEM,” HE WROTE.
They would then speed off to the superhighway through Ruiru and then parked after some distance where Mungai would dispose off the contents of one of the paper bags inside a live fence.
They would drive another kilometre and stop to dispose of the second paper bag and its contents in a thicket.
Mathenge wrote that they would then drive to Kiambu town using the Ruiru-Tatu-Kiambu road to Githunguri where they would stop and throw the sisal bag
‘MATHENGE WROTE THAT THEY WOULD THEN DRIVE TO KIAMBU TOWN USING THE RUIRU-TATU-KIAMBU ROAD TO GITHUNGURI WHERE THEY WOULD STOP AND THROW THE SISAL BAG WHICH I BELIEVED CONTAINED THE BLOOD-STAINED FLOOR CARPET.
From here, he wrote, they drove to Kiamaiko shopping centre where the woman parked the car and “came to my vehicle while having her house car keys. I noted she was barefooted.”
Mathenge claimed that with this mission accomplished, Mungai embarked on ensuring that he kept quiet over what he had seen, instructing that should the police call, he should maintain deniability.
“SHE THEN DIRECTED ME TO DRIVE HER BACK TO THE ESTATE. ON THE WAY, SHE NARRATED TO ME HOW SHE MURDERED THE DECEASED. FURTHER, SHE TOLD ME THAT SHE WAS LESS CONCERNED ABOUT ALL THAT I HAD SEEN BUT REQUIRED ME TO KEPT MY MOUTH SHUT,” HE SAID.
He added that on the evening of January 28, Mungai called him and instructed that should the police call, he should say that he found her with her husband and Kamangara’s body lying on the floor and in fear, left.
At the tail end of his statement, Mathenge spills the beans, describing what he saw and offloading the weight of his guilt on Mungai.
He dropped the bombshell:
“I WISH TO CONFIRM [THAT] IT IS JUDY WHO MURDERED THE DECEASED RIGHT INSIDE HER FOUR WAYS HOUSE. THE HUSBAND WHOSE NAME I CAME TO KNOW THROUGH THE MEDIA (JOSEPH KORI KARUE). I NEVER SAW HIM, NEITHER IN THE HOUSE NOR THE COMPOUND.”