I killed her, body parts suspect tells magistrate

KENYAN nurse and murder suspect Kenneth Orina admitted in the Grootfontein Magistrate’s Court this week that he killed his wife, cut her body into pieces, and then discarded her remains around Grootfontein about two months ago.

Orina (34) made an unannounced, unscheduled return to the Grootfontein Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday morning to give his plea on charges of murder, defeating the course of justice, and violating a dead human body, The Namibian established yesterday. Sources reported that Orina admitted in his plea before Magistrate Leopold Hangalo that he had killed his wife, Rose Chepkomor Kiplangat, who according to the Police was 32 years old.Orina has said that the killing was accidental rather than planned and intentional.CONFESSION Chief Inspector Angula Amulungu, Commanding Officer of the Namibian Police’s Public Relations and Liaison Division, confirmed yesterday that Orina had been taken to court to give his plea.Amulungu further confirmed a claim that Orina had given a confession to the Police on Monday.According to Amulungu, the plea was taken in court on Monday, after Orina had made the alleged confession.According to other sources, as well as a court record, though, the plea proceedings took place on Tuesday.Orina pleaded to charges that he had killed his wife at the Nurses’ Home of Grootfontein State Hospital and that he had cut the body into several parts and disposed of it between September 13 and 17.Orina pleaded guilty to all three charges.’ANGRY MOOD’ When the Magistrate questioned him on his pleas, he related that when he returned home from work on September 14, his wife was in an angry mood.He claimed that she confronted him, telling him she was tired of his problems and threatening that she would kill him and herself.Orina is claimed to have told the Magistrate that he was astonished and that he tried in vain to calm his wife down.According to Orina the argument with his wife escalated to the point where she started looking for a knife, locked the door of their home, and told him that he would not escape death that day.He tried to flee to safety in a bedroom, but she followed him, kicked open the bedroom door and then fell down, a knife in her hand, Orina is claimed to have told the Magistrate.A struggle ensued, the Magistrate was told.Orina related that he eventually managed to get hold of the hand in which his wife had the knife and pulled it.He did not know that with that motion, the knife had accidentally cut his wife on her neck, he is claimed to have stated.’REALISATION’ Orina said when he saw that she had been hurt, he told her that she had a cut on her neck, but she responded by again telling him that she was going to kill him.Her kept on struggling to get the knife out of her hand, he said.When he had managed to do this, he brought his wife a cup of water that she had asked for, but she was not able to take the water and he then realised that she was in a serious condition.He tried to control her bleeding, but did not succeed, Orina said.Rose Kiplangat’s body was dismembered the next day, Orina reportedly told the Magistrate.He related that when he realised that his wife had died, he was confused.At some time, he said, he tried to take her body to the hospital’s mortuary, but he fell down and did not manage to carry out that plan.He then used a knife to cut her body into different parts and started disposing of the parts at various places, Orina is claimed to have said.Because he loved his wife, he did not want her body “to rot” and he wanted to take her to the mortuary, but that plan did not work out, Orina is claimed to have said.The dismemberment of Kiplangat’s body took place on September 15 and during the morning of September 16, Orina reportedly added.DISCOVERIES The first discovery of human body parts that are now suspected to have been part of the remains of Kiplangat took place near Grootfontein State Hospital on the morning of September 17, when a head and two forearms were found in a black plastic refuse bag.More human body parts – also in black refuse bags, and having started to decompose – were found on the southwestern outskirts of the town on September 22, while the last body parts were found on September 25 amongst some bushes near Grootfontein’s private hospital and also again on the town’s southwestern’s outskirts.The head that was among the first of the body parts to be found was initially wrongly identified as being part of the remains of a former Gochas resident, Jacoba Olivier.The Police announced two days after the discovery of the last of the body parts that were found at Grootfontein that investigations had revealed that this person’s throat had been slit with a sharp object and that this had possibly caused her death.Olivier however turned up alive and well and living at Outjo in mid-October, throwing the Police investigation of the case back into a situation where detectives had to try to figure out who had been responsible for the killing of a woman that remained nameless at that stage.By October 30, a breakthrough is alleged to have been made in the investigation when Orina, who has been working at Grootfontein State Hospital as a theatre nurse, was detained on suspicion of having murdered his wife.Orina’s wife reportedly had last been seen alive on September 14.After almost two days of questioning by the Police, Orina made a first court appearance on November 1, and his case was postponed to February 4 for further investigations to be done and so that Orina could get legal representation.Orina appeared in court again on Tuesday without legal representation.He pleaded after Public Prosecutor Frieda Matsi had put the charges to him.Orina is remaining in custody, after Magistrate Hangalo again postponed the case to February 4 for further investigations, for Orina to get legal aid, and for the Prosecutor General to take a decision on the further course the case would be taking.Sources reported that Orina admitted in his plea before Magistrate Leopold Hangalo that he had killed his wife, Rose Chepkomor Kiplangat, who according to the Police was 32 years old.Orina has said that the killing was accidental rather than planned and intentional.CONFESSION Chief Inspector Angula Amulungu, Commanding Officer of the Namibian Police’s Public Relations and Liaison Division, confirmed yesterday that Orina had been taken to court to give his plea.Amulungu further confirmed a claim that Orina had given a confession to the Police on Monday.According to Amulungu, the plea was taken in court on Monday, after Orina had made the alleged confession.According to other sources, as well as a court record, though, the plea proceedings took place on Tuesday.Orina pleaded to charges that he had killed his wife at the Nurses’ Home of Grootfontein State Hospital and that he had cut the body into several parts and disposed of it between September 13 and 17.Orina pleaded guilty to all three charges.’ANGRY MOOD’ When the Magistrate questioned him on his pleas, he related that when he returned home from work on September 14, his wife was in an angry mood.He claimed that she confronted him, telling him she was tired of his problems and threatening that she would kill him and herself.Orina is claimed to have told the Magistrate that he was astonished and that he tried in vain to calm his wife down. According to Orina the argument with his wife escalated to the point where she started looking for a knife, locked the door of their home, and told him that he would not escape death that day.He tried to flee to safety in a bedroom, but she followed him, kicked open the bedroom door and then fell down, a knife in her hand, Orina is claimed to have told the Magistrate.A struggle ensued, the Magistrate was told.Orina related that he eventually managed to get hold of the hand in which his wife had the knife and pulled it.He did not know that with that motion, the knife had accidentally cut his wife on her neck, he is claimed to have stated.’REALISATION’ Orina said when he saw that she had been hurt, he told her that she had a cut on her neck, but she responded by again telling him that she was going to kill him.Her kept on struggling to get the knife out of her hand, he said.When he had managed to do this, he brought his wife a cup of water that she had asked for, but she was not able to take the water and he then realised that she was in a serious condition.He tried to control her bleeding, but did not succeed, Orina said.Rose Kiplangat’s body was dismembered the next day, Orina reportedly told the Magistrate.He related that when he realised that his wife had died, he was confused.At some time, he said, he tried to take her body to the hospital’s mortuary, but he fell down and did not manage to carry out that plan.He then used a knife to cut her body into different parts and started disposing of the parts at various places, Orina is claimed to have said.Because he loved his wife, he did not want her body “to rot” and he wanted to take her to the mortuary, but that plan did not work out, Orina is claimed to have said.The dismemberment of Kiplangat’s body took place on September 15 and during the morning of September 16, Orina reportedly added.DISCOVERIES The first discovery of human body parts that are now suspected to have been part of the remains of Kiplangat took place near Grootfontein State Hospital on the morning of September 17, when a head and two forearms were found in a black plastic refuse bag.More human body parts – also in black refuse bags, and having started to decompose – were found on the southwestern outskirts of the town on September 22, while the last body parts were found on September 25 amongst some bushes near Grootfontein’s private hospital and also again on the town’s southwestern’s outskirts.The head that was among the first of the body parts to be found was initially wrongly identified as being part of the remains of a former Gochas resident, Jacoba Olivier.The Police announced two days after the discovery of the last of the body parts that were found at Grootfontein that investigations had revealed that this person’s throat had been slit with a sharp object and that this had possibly caused her death.Olivier however turned up alive and well and living at Outjo in mid-October, throwing the Police investigation of the case back into a situation where detectives had to try to figure out who had been responsible for the killing of a woman that remained nameless at that stage.By October 30, a breakthrough is alleged to have been made in the investigation when Orina, who has been working at Grootfontein State Hospital as a theatre nurse, was detained on suspicion of having murdered his wife.Orina’s wife reportedly had last been seen alive on September 14.After almost two days of questioning by the Police, Orina made a first court appearance on November 1, and his case was postponed to February 4 for further investigations to be done and so that Orina could get legal representation.Orina appeared in court again on Tuesday without legal representation.He pleaded after Public Prosecutor Frieda Matsi had put the charges to him.Orina is remaining in custody, after Magistrate Hangalo again postponed the case to February 4 for further investigations, for Orina to get legal aid, and for the Prosecutor General to take a decision on the further course the case would be taking.