Gladys Chania charged with murder of her husband

Finally, the Kiambu politician who was suspected to have brutally murdered her husband George Mwangi has been formally charged with the offence.  

Gladys Chania alongside her co-accused Morris Mbugua who appeared before Kiambu High Court Judge Mary Kasango were charged with jointly murdering the late contractor who has since been buried. 

The duo denied the charges.

The court heard that the accused planned and executed the macabre murder of the deceased who was Chania’s husband of 28 years. 

She will now remain in remand at the Langata Women’s Prison for the next four months when her application to be released on bail will be heard while Morris will be remanded at the Kamiti maximum security prison. 

The suspect who had last week been released on a Ksh1million cash bail and a surety of a similar amount but failed to raise the same will appear before the court on November 29, 2022.

This after being subjected to the agony of being detained at Gigiri Police Station for close to one month while her co-accused was being held at Muthaiga police station. 

Last month, a postmortem conducted by the government pathologist Johnston Odour established that the late Mwangi died after being hit with a blunt object at the back of his head.

His body also bore cuts on his hands which was an indication that he had tried to fruitlessly struggle with his killers. 

Chania who unsuccessfully gunned for the Kiambu Woman Representative during the August polls was arrested two weeks ago in connection with the macabre murder of her 58-year-old husband.

His charred body was found dumped at Kieni forest with investigators zeroing their investigations into a love triangle. 

It is alleged that after establishing that the father of their three children was intimately involved with another woman, she is suspected to have planned his gruesome murder.

The Rwanda based contractor came to Kenya on September 13, 2022, not knowing that his death was beckoning. 

According to reliable sources, Mwangi and his wife had a frosty relationship after she established that he was having an intimate relationship with one Lucy Muthoni. 

Mwangi’s family members revealed to sleuths that the deceased had introduced Lucy to family members as his second wife. 

The late Mwangi was last week buried at his matrimonial Mang’u home in a sombre ceremony which took less than two hours.

Chania did not attend the burial ceremony as she was in police custody but she did a eulogy which was read on her behalf by a relative. 

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