{{A Kenyan woman has been spared jail for hiring hitmen kill her husband after the couple promised a magistrate that they had patched up their differences, reports said on Friday.}}<\/p>\n
Businesswoman Faith Wairimu Maina walked to freedom after her husband, John Muthee, said he had forgiven her for trying to have him shot in the head and dumped in a ditch.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to forgive her for the sake of our children and family,\u201d reports quoted Muthee as telling a Nairobi magistrate.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is my wife and the mother of my children,\u201d he told the court.<\/p>\n
The woman was nabbed when she handed Sh40,000 ($450) to undercover policemen as a down payment on the job.<\/p>\n
Reports said the woman wanted him shot in the head three times, and had promised to pay a further Sh160,000 upon the recovery of her husband\u2019s bloodstained clothes and his bank card pin numbers.<\/p>\n
Detectives said it was her second and possibly third attempt at having her allegedly unfaithful husband eliminated and that an earlier contract flopped when the would-be assassins got cold feet and ran off with the deposit.<\/p>\n
But the woman\u2019s lawyer, John Swaka, said the couple had agreed to patch things up.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe court allows for such negotiations in litigation,\u201d he was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have sincerely buried the hatchet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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