Kenyan ate his wife's heart
2005-01-26 10:33
Nairobi - A Kenyan man has been sentenced to death after being found guilty of murdering his wife and eating her heart, court officials said on Wednesday.
Justice Kalpana Lawal sentenced Lolwakenju Lengironi to death in the High Court on Tuesday for the gruesome crime committed on September 11 2001 in Nairobi's sprawling Kayole slums.
Despite police testimony that they arrested the man with the heart of his wife on a plate and blood on his mouth and hands, Lengironi insisted that he had drunk too much the day before to recall what happened, the official added.
Lengironi, a Maasai tribesman, has two weeks to appeal the sentence.
Kenya still has capital punishment on its books but has not used it in years.
- AFP