The suspect was arrested a day to the burial of the wife after post-mortem reports indicated that the deceased was murdered and did not drown in a bath tub as alleged.
Trouble started last week when the couple checked in one of the posh hotels around Lake Elementaita to celebrate the wife’s birthday.
During the weekend retreat, the wife was found dead in the tub and police called in before the body was transferred to Lee Funeral home.
According to Gilgil OCPD Serah Koki, the husband claimed that he had left the house for the main hotel but on coming back their room was locked from the inside.
“The hotel management used the spare key to access the room only to find the woman lying dead in the bath tub and police were called in,” she said.
Koki said that a postmortem conducted on the body established that the man was lying as they were indications that she had been strangled to death.
“We have arrested the man following the postmortem report and he will be arraigned in court facing murder charges,” she said.
-Anthony Gitonga