PREMIUM KDF officer who shocked the nation with the brutal murder he planned News 12 hours ago Listen
A Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) officer Major Peter Mwaura, suspected of killing his estranged wife Joyce Syombua and two children, is led away by military police and detectives after he was arrested.
On Friday, the High Court in Nairobi brought the long-running case to a dramatic conclusion after finding the former military officer guilty of murdering Joyce, 31, her daughter Shanice Maua, 10, and five-year-old Prince Michael before burying their bodies in a shallow grave at Thigithu in Laikipia County.
Photo credit: File | Nation The conviction closes one of the country’s most disturbing criminal trials, one that exposed how a serving military officer allegedly turned on his own family and went to extraordinary lengths to erase every trace of the crime.
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