{{In Kenya, a man left neighbours in shock after he killed his wife and ate some of her body parts before a mob lynched him at Wendiga village in Kieni West on Wednesday night.}}<\/p>\n
Morris Gituma Mutegi, 23, was said to have also forced his two-and-a-half-year-old son to drink his mother\u2019s blood in the bizarre incident.<\/p>\n
Mutegi, who was a farmhand, allegedly got into a fight with his wife Caroline Gatwiri, 22, at 11pm, and was seen by his employer Anne Wangeci chasing her in the compound.<\/p>\n
Wangeci raised the alarm but by the time neighbours responded Gatwiri had been killed by the husband who was wielding a sword and a spear.<\/p>\n
Nyeri OCPD Kirunya Limbitu said Gituma and his wife hailed from Kandungu village in Gitije Meru South.<\/p>\n
Police officers at the scene said that Gatwiri\u2019s head had been severed from her body and smashed using a stone.<\/p>\n
Pieces of her skull and jawbone were still at the scene in the morning, but police later took them away.<\/p>\n
Mr Solomon Mwangi, a son of Ms Wangeci, said Mutegi killed his wife a few metres from his mother\u2019s house before dragging the body to his small house and mutilating it.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe killed his wife near my mother\u2019s house, around midnight. He then went to the house and fetched his son and forced him to drink his mother\u2019s blood, but as he dragged the body back to his house we managed to grab the child. He was armed with a sword and a spear and we were afraid of going near him,\u201d said Mr Mwangi.<\/p>\n
Police said Mutegi ate the body parts of his wife including her heart, liver, face and brains.<\/p>\n
According to Mr Mwangi when the neighbours who eventually numbered 200 subdued Mutegi, they tied him up to a fence post using a rope and beat him up.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had tied him up using a rope onto a post, but he was very very wild,\u201d added Mr Mwangi.<\/p>\n
The wife had arrived at the home in the evening from Meru, with Mutegi picking her from Mweiga town a few kilometres from the home.<\/p>\n
He even took his son to meet his employer, telling Ms Wangeci that his wife was resting in the house after the long journey.<\/p>\n
On Thursday morning, the couple\u2019s child still had his mother\u2019s blood smeared all over his face.<\/p>\n
He was placed under Ms Wangeci\u2019s care, with police from Mweiga police station saying he would later be handed over to the children\u2019s officer in Nyeri.<\/p>\n
Mutegi was described by his employer as having never had a quarrel with anyone since he was employed to look after her cattle in March of this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe never raised his voice, not even to a child. He had even brought his son to meet me in the evening after picking his wife from Mweiga and all appeared well at that time,\u201d said Ms Wangeci.<\/p>\n
Neighbours milled around the home, many still in disbelief over the nights events.<\/p>\n
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