Police officers in the Ndiu-ini are of Gilgil are holding a murder suspect handed over to police by residents on Sunday on accusation of killing his wife in a domestic dispute.

Witnesses familiar with the matter say the man and the deceased woman have been living together for the last three years, albeit with a lot of disagreements.

According to Moses Macharia, a neighbour and in-charge of 'Nyumba Kumi' in the area, he was notified of the tragic turn of events by the suspect's immediate neighbours. 

He said it was not the first time the couple had been in a nasty fight that forced neighbours to intervene. 

"I know these people because I have come here before when they had fought, that time it was so bad because they had even brandished knives gainst each other," Moses Macharia, a neighbour in charge of Nyumba Kumi in the area said. 

Although the circumstances surrounding the fatal end of their troubled relationship remain unknown, neighbours claim the deceased destroyed the suspect household items before setting them on fire. 

"Wote walikuwa walevi mara nyingi walikuwa wanabugia pombe halafu wanakuja kupigania kwa Nyumba," Macharia added. 

According to Francis Irungu, another neighbour, the murder suspect, who is said to have committed the crime on Saturday night, was still at their rented house on Sunday morning. 

He was discovered by a friend of the decedent who visited them in the morning on Sunday, noticed something was wrong, and alerted the neighbours.