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He walked into the kitchen where she was preparing supper… and turned it into a scene of horror. He stabbed her again and again—deep, merciless wounds—as her screams went through the house. Their three young children watched, frozen in fear, as their mother fought for her life. They carried the trauma. Then, as if that was not enough, he turned the same bloodied knife on himself, slitting his own throat before collapsing beside her. He had already swallowed poison. The floor was covered in blood. By the time help came, only the children were left alive.
Winnie Akusuha was thirty years old. A mother of three. A woman who had chosen to walk away from pain in search of peace. Just a week earlier, she had left her troubled marriage in Nairobi and returned to her parents’ home in Kabwareng village, Nandi County—hoping to rebuild her life, to protect her children, to start again.
On the evening of 15 January 2025, at around 7 p.m., that hope was shattered.
Her estranged husband, Hannise Simani Juma, traveled over 350 kilometers from Nairobi. He came with a plan. In his bag were birth certificates, a torch, poison, and a written outline of what he intended to do. He disguised his visit as something harmless—bringing documents for the children. But what he carried in his heart was something far darker.
Winnie was in the kitchen, doing what mothers do—preparing a meal for her family—when he attacked.
He lunged at her with a knife and stabbed her repeatedly. The wounds were deep and deliberate—cuts to her shoulders, her hand, behind her head, and multiple stabs near her collarbone. She tried to fight back. She screamed. She struggled. But the violence was overwhelming. She gave up.
Her children saw everything.
Family members rushed in after hearing the screams, only to find Winnie lying on the floor, writhing in pain, surrounded by blood.
Then came the final, chilling act.
Hannise turned the knife on himself. He slit his own throat in the same kitchen, beside the woman he had just attacked. A bottle of poison was later found—he had already swallowed it, ensuring he would not survive.
Both were rushed to Jumuia Friends Kaimosi Hospital.
Winnie was pronounced dead on arrival.
Hannise died shortly after.
What remained was silence… and three children whose lives had been shattered in a single evening.
It was not accidental. It was planned. Written down. Prepared. A deliberate journey from Nairobi to Nandi to end a life—and his own. Police confirmed it as a calculated murder-suicide.
Winnie’s parents, Musa Keya and Mary Ondiso, were left with grief too heavy for words. Their home—once a place of refuge—became the very place their daughter took her last breath.
Winnie and Hannise had once been young lovers from high school. A story that began with promise. But somewhere along the way, love turned into conflict… and conflict into tragedy.
Three children—a boy and two girls—were left behind. No mother. No father. Only memories of a night no child should ever witness. The trauma.
She ran from danger… only to meet it at the doorstep she believed was safe.
Rest in peace.
Winnie Akusuha — 30 years old. Murdered on 15 January 2025 in Kabwareng village, Nandi County, by her estranged husband Hannise Simani Juma, who later took his own life.
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