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A woman has confessed to hacking her mother-in-law to death in Kiambu county, saying Satan had also asked her to kill her own mother and sister.
Caroline Wanjiku, 29, reported to Thigio chief's post on Monday saying she had killed her mother-in-law Ann Nyambura in Limuru constituency.
Wanjiku, who committed the crime in Gishobo village, Ndeiya ward, said visions of snakes coiling around her waist kept her up at night.
“On Sunday night when I went to sleep, the snakes visited me. They asked me to kill the three people they kept asking for, but I prayed to God and slept after they left,” she said.
“The following morning, they came again and asked me to kill them. I do not know what happened but I proceeded to the kitchen where my mother-in-law was and killed her using an axe."
She told the press, administration police and residents she also intended to kill her mother and sister but did not find them at home.
“It is Satan who disturbs my mind," said the wife of David Njenga, who works in Qatar.
Assistant chief James Mwaura said Wanjiku told her father-in-law that she had killed his wife, and asked for her mother and sister.
“She went to the AP post to report what she had done when she could not find her mother and her sister,” Mwaura said.
-The Star