On June 19, Faith Wairimu made the stunning admission before a Nairobi court that she had paid hitmen to shoot her husband John Muthee three times in the head. If her admission was shocking, what followed was mind-boggling. Instead of life in jail, Faith’s marriage got a new lease of life after Muthee went before a judge last week to forgive and forget. Wonder no more how and why this came to be. As she languished at the Lang’ata Women’s Prison exactly four months ago, Faith Wairimu’s fate had been seemingly sealed. Having shockingly pleaded guilty to charges of hiring hitmen to kill her husband, Mr John Muthee Guama, a largely unsympathetic public eagerly awaited her sentencing on June 28. It appeared improbable that the law would offer the businesswoman an escape route, as her offense attracted life imprisonment as the minimum punishment. Faith Wairimu: forgiven by her husband Faith Wairimu: forgiven by her husband In his brief appearances in court, a visibly-shaken Muthee, as the complainant, seemed all set to lose a partner who wanted him shot three times in the head. Two young children were to be indefinitely separated from their mother. Couple on honeymoon Fast forward to date and you realize why wonders will never end. The couple is now on honeymoon in an undisclosed location, away from the camera glares that captured their every moment in the courtroom. They two, who have since been born again, have also unexpectedly turned into overnight role models on matters of love and forgiveness. But just how did such an inconceivable turnaround happen? Mr John Swaka, who represented Ms Wairimu in the case, admits the police had a water tight case against his client, who she bumped into, and saved, as the clock perilously ticked towards her sentencing. Pleaded guilty Ms Wairimu had been arrested on June 17 after she paid Sh40, 000 ($450) to undercover policemen disguised as assassins at Zimmerman estate in Nairobi. She pleaded guilty to the charges two days later. But her fairytale started when members of the Kenya Christian Lawyers’ Fellowship visited Lang’ata Women’s Prison soon after to offer legal education to remandees. “That is when she learnt of our services. We talked and she implored that I offer her legal services, which I agreed,” Mr Swaka told The Standard on Saturday at his office in Hurlingham, Nairobi. The legal counsel says he realized he had to act swiftly to have the accused change her plea.“She told me the police had duped her that if she accepts the charges, she would just be fined Sh5,000 and released. She also said she had been beaten up, threatened and intimidated by members of the flying squad,” he reveals. “She was certainly not in the right frame of mind and took the plea under very torturous circumstances and with no sound legal advice. She was totally unaware that she was days away from the start of life in prison. I advised her to change her plea, which she did on July 1st.” At this point, the couple’s relatives and relatives had resigned to fate, albeit deeply worried one of their own was to spend life in jail, not to mention a 16-year-old marriage that had been tossed down the drain. But unknown to them, the case was now not in the hands of ordinary lawyers. It was being handled by Christian lawyers who look beyond the law when handling cases, especially that which threaten the marriage institution. what o love!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 20:59:15 +0000
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