The second accused person in the murder of the late Catholic Priest Fr Michael Kyengo Maingi, who was murdered in October 2019 while serving Thatha Parish in Masinga, Machakos County, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Kavivya Mwangangi was slapped with the jail term on Thursday, December 20 by Embu High Court Judge Justice Lucy Njuguna, following the conclusion of a full hearing of the case that kicked off in 2019.
In July 2021, the court had sentenced the first accused person, Michael Muthini Mutunga, to a similar term of 30 years, after he pleaded guilty to the heinous murder.
The 43-year-old priest disappeared from his parent’s home in Tala, Matungulu in Machakos County, on October 5, 2019. Fr Kyengo’s remains would later be found buried in a shallow grave on a dry riverbed in Embu.
In a murder most foul, the clergyman’s lifeless body whose throat had been slit, had been put in a gunny bag, before being disposed on the bed of River Gathingiri.
Detectives had painstakingly investigated the murder and arrested the main suspect with crucial exhibits linking him to the crime. The exhibits included a sharp knife suspected to be the murder weapon and some of his blood stained clothes which he had tried to wash in vain.
