{"id":535,"date":"2026-10-06T09:47:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T09:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/?p=535"},"modified":"2026-10-06T09:47:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T09:47:48","slug":"woman-son-among-three-arrested-over-husbands-murder-in-homa-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"Woman, son among three arrested over husband&#8217;s murder in Homa Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"362\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/a2fd23c5c8c0c81219cce88e1af8afa4-thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/a2fd23c5c8c0c81219cce88e1af8afa4-thumbnail.jpg 362w, https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/a2fd23c5c8c0c81219cce88e1af8afa4-thumbnail-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 42-year-old woman and her son are among three suspects arrested over the alleged murder of her husband at Kadibuoro village in Kanyiriema Location, Rangwe Sub-county.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police identified the woman as Rose Nyakundi, whose husband, John Nyakundi Okoko, 45, was killed on Sunday night.According to police, Nyakundi is suspected of conspiring with her 24-year-old son and another 36-year-old man from the village to kill Okoko while he was asleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The victim was allegedly struck with a blunt object inside his house.Police say that after the killing, Okoko&#8217;s body was washed in the bathroom and his clothes changed before it was moved about one kilometre from the home and dumped in a thicket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nyakundi later reported the matter at Ndiru Police Station, claiming her husband had left home to meet someone who was to give him rice plants for feeding his livestock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 42-year-old woman and her son are among three suspects arrested over the alleged murder&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}