A police officer stationed at the Kiwanja Police Post in Kahawa West, Nairobi County, was killed by her husband after an alleged disagreement in Webuye, Bungoma County.

The off-duty police constable Tiffany Wanyonyi and her husband, 40-year-old Jackson Oloitele, traveled upcountry to attend the burial of her late grandmother's burial.

PHOTO | COURTESY police car

The entire sequence of events up to Wanyonyi's gruesome murder is unknown, although police records indicate that an altercation between the two developed into the deadly attack.

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"The deceased's body was found lying dead on the bed with several deep cuts on the neck and multiple injuries on the head, suspected to have been inflicted by a sharp object. A panga suspected to be the murder weapon was recovered from the scene," a police report documenting the incident reads in part.

After the incident, Oloitele surrendered to the police.

The deceased's body has been taken to the mortuary at Lugulu Mission Hospital for storage pending a postmortem examination.