KENYAN nurse Kenneth Orina will be put on trial in the High Court on charges that he murdered his wife, dismembered her body and then disposed of her remains by leaving body parts at various places in and around Grootfontein a year ago.
Orina was informed of this decision of the Prosecutor General when he appeared in the Grootfontein Magistrate’s Court on Friday. He will be standing trial on two charges, the Prosecutor General decided, according to the decision that Public Prosecutor Frieda Matsi handed to Magistrate Leopold Hangalo on Friday.These will be counts of murder and defeating or obstructing the course of justice, or attempting to do so.The 35-year-old Orina was arrested at Grootfontein on October 30 last year.By that time it had been six weeks and a day since the first of a succession of human body parts had been discovered at the Otjozondjupa Region town.The first of those human remains to be found were a head and two forearms, which were discovered next to Dr Ngarikutuke Tjiriange Road, which runs past the Grootfontein State Hospital.Orina and his wife, Rose Chepkemoi Kiplangat (33), lived in a flat on the grounds of the hospital, where Orina was working as a nurse.Before further body parts were found on the southwestern outskirts of the town on September 22 and 25, the severed head that had been discovered on September 17 was identified as being part of the remains of a former Gochas resident, Jacoba Olivier.By mid-October, however, Olivier emerged alive from where she was living at Outjo, and the Police were back to square one in their attempts to identify the person whose remains had been found at Grootfontein.Orina was arrested after the Police received a tip-off that his wife, who was also a Kenyan national and a trained nurse, appeared to have disappeared around the time that the first body parts turned up at the town.Orina pleaded guilty to charges of murder, defeating the course of justice and violating a dead body when he made an unscheduled second court appearance on November 20.He told the court that he and his wife had an argument in their flat on September 14 last year.He related that his wife told him she was going to kill him and at one stage threatened him with a knife.During a struggle for the possession of the knife, his wife was cut on her neck and accidentally killed, he claimed.Orina told the Magistrate that after he realised that his wife had died, he became “confused”.This led to him cutting up her body and discarding the body parts, he related.Orina has to make a first pre-trial appearance in the High Court on November 6.The Magistrate ordered that he should remain in Police custody until then.He will be standing trial on two charges, the Prosecutor General decided, according to the decision that Public Prosecutor Frieda Matsi handed to Magistrate Leopold Hangalo on Friday.These will be counts of murder and defeating or obstructing the course of justice, or attempting to do so.The 35-year-old Orina was arrested at Grootfontein on October 30 last year.By that time it had been six weeks and a day since the first of a succession of human body parts had been discovered at the Otjozondjupa Region town.The first of those human remains to be found were a head and two forearms, which were discovered next to Dr Ngarikutuke Tjiriange Road, which runs past the Grootfontein State Hospital.Orina and his wife, Rose Chepkemoi Kiplangat (33), lived in a flat on the grounds of the hospital, where Orina was working as a nurse.Before further body parts were found on the southwestern outskirts of the town on September 22 and 25, the severed head that had been discovered on September 17 was identified as being part of the remains of a former Gochas resident, Jacoba Olivier.By mid-October, however, Olivier emerged alive from where she was living at Outjo, and the Police were back to square one in their attempts to identify the person whose remains had been found at Grootfontein.Orina was arrested after the Police received a tip-off that his wife, who was also a Kenyan national and a trained nurse, appeared to have disappeared around the time that the first body parts turned up at the town.Orina pleaded guilty to charges of murder, defeating the course of justice and violating a dead body when he made an unscheduled second court appearance on November 20.He told the court that he and his wife had an argument in their flat on September 14 last year.He related that his wife told him she was going to kill him and at one stage threatened him with a knife.During a struggle for the possession of the knife, his wife was cut on her neck and accidentally killed, he claimed.Orina told the Magistrate that after he realised that his wife had died, he became “confused”.This led to him cutting up her body and discarding the body parts, he related.Orina has to make a first pre-trial appearance in the High Court on November 6.The Magistrate ordered that he should remain in Police custody until then.
