Student Michael Mutunga gets 30 years for killing Catholic priest lover

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From right: Michael Muthini Mutunga, Kavivya Mwangangi and Solomon Mutava Wambua, when they appeared before Justice Lucy Njuguna, at Embu High Court. [Muriithi Mugo, Standard]

A former student has been jailed for 30 years for killing Catholic Priest Michael Kyengo with whom he was in a homosexual relationship.
The High Court slapped the sentence on Muthini Mutunga on his own plea of guilty and on an assessment report.
Justice Lucy Njuguna observed that the assessment report indicated that anger and grief led to the killing of the priest who was in a homosexual relationship with the accused in 2019.
She, however, spared Kyengo from having a date with the hangman’s noose or life imprisonment due to his mitigation that the priest had forced him into a homosexual relationship and infected him with a sexually transmitted disease.
“He admitted he took the law into his own hands. There was no justification whatsoever to kill the deceased when he could have resorted to legal means to seek justice,” Justice Njuguna said at the sentencing.
The case against Kavivya Mwangangi and Solomon Wambua who are the second and third accused in the case will be heard on November 17, 2021.
Nicholas Machuki, a cousin to the deceased said the family has accepted the court decision, though the priest left a big gap.
Father Francis Maundu of the Catholic Diocese of Machakos said the deceased was a brother in the ministry, and his death affected the diocese and the entire Christian Catholic fraternity due to the words used by the accused as to why he was killed.

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