Three
days before Christmas at Club 42 Bar in Salgaa Trading Centre in Rongai, Nakuru
County, a night of drinking turned deadly for two commercial sex workers.
Mercy
Chepkurui Koskey and Mary Nduta Wanyoro were enjoying their evening when a confrontation
ensued at around 3am.
Ms
Chepkurui accidentally stepped on Nduta at the entrance of the club and
although she immediately apologised, Nduta did not accept the apology and
responded by slapping her friend.
A fight
broke out between them and customers in the bar quickly intervened to stop it.
They also advised Ms Chepkurui to go home, which she initially did.
However,
the night took a tragic turn when Ms Chepkurui returned with a kitchen knife
hidden in her underpants and approached Nduta who was conversing with another
woman whom she gave Sh200 to go to the counter to order a drink.
But
once the woman left, Ms Chepkurui, a mother of two, removed the kitchen knife
and stabbed Nduta in the neck before fleeing the scene.
Some
customers ran from the pub while others attempted to assist Nduta rushing her
to a clinic where she was confirmed dead on arrival.
The incident
was reported to Salgaa Police Station where detectives launched an
investigation and traced the accused to the house of a Nyumba Kumi elder where
she was arrested.
The
mother of two was charged with murder which she initially denied but later
changed her plea to guilty.
The
Directorate of Public Prosecutions has now recommended a 20-year jail sentence
for the commercial sex worker who admitted killing her colleague following a
brawl.
The
DPP, in a plea bargain agreement with Ms Chepkurui, proposed the sentence as a
substitute for a death sentence after she agreed to plead guilty to the murder
charge.
“The
republic agrees to recommend a lesser sentence of 20 years imprisonment other
than the penalty of death for the charge of murder as provided for under
section 204 of the penal code,” read part of the plea bargain agreement dated
June 12 and presented before the court on Wednesday.
Ms
Chepkurui admitted to having been in the commercial sex work for six years after
separating from her husband.
Nduta
on the other hand has three children born of different fathers.
Justice
Samuel Muhochi directed that the case be mentioned on July 29
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