Man Kills Wife, Himself, Leaves Suicide Note About Troubled Marriage

A man killed his wife before swallowing poison and killing himself by hanging at their home in Nairobi over the weekend.

Investigation revealed that 50-year-old Albert Mwangi killed his wife, Milcah, using a blunt object following a prolonged domestic dispute. He then consumed poison and hanged himself. During a search of the home, police found a suicide note dated May 21, 2019. In the suicide note, addressed to his four children, Albert mentioned the details of his troubled marriage.

Albert claimed his wife, a business woman, had been “threatening, tormenting and insulting” him and that she hated him.

“Since we marry (sic) we have been fighting. I didn’t know that I married a counterfit (sic) wife. I married a Jezebel and her intention was just to steal everything from me. She has been threatening me, insulting me, she hated me,” he wrote in the note.

Albert further claimed that Milcah was conspiring with her brother to destroy his life.

“Both Milcah and her brother planned to steal everything from me, destroy my life and then kill me,” he claimed, adding, “The end of the fight is over.”

Albert then thanked his pastors for trying to reconcile their marriage. He added that he and his wife “have gone to be with the Lord” and that they were leaving their children “in the hands of God.”

The bodies of Albert and Milcah were at a hospital morgue and would be buried this week.

In a similar incident in August 2018, a man from Kenya’s Mumias killed himself by hanging on a tree by the roadside. Police found a suicide note addressed to his siblings. In the note, he addressed to his siblings as “enemies of development” and said they ignored him when he had a genuine problem and did not help him get a job. He further stated that they had “thrown him into depression.” In the note, the unnamed man also asked his parents to not allow his siblings to attend his funeral.