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A Rwandese woman last week arrested for conspiring to murder her Swiss national boyfriend in Nairobi has been charged with the offence.

Antoinette Uwineza alias Micheline Uwababyyi appeared before Milimani Chief Magistrate Lucas Onyina and pleaded not guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit a felony and preparation to commit a felony.

She is jointly charged alongside her brother Eddy Kwizera who has also denied the charges.

Uwababyyi who was in November 2018 sentenced to life in jail after being found guilty of killing her love rival but later freed by Court of Appeal was on December 31, last year arrested by undercover Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) detectives from Nairobi after she allegedly lured the foreigner into the country on the pretext of selling him gold.

Unknown place

Prosecution alleges that on December 30, last year at an unknown place within Nairobi county, the two with others not before court, conspired to commit a felony namely murder one Helbling Guico Paul with intent to steal from him money and his other valuables.

A second count states that on the same date at Brookside area in Westlands within Nairobi county, jointly with others not before court, being within their place of abode, were in possession of articles for use in the course of committing murder, namely two kitchen knives, one litre of battery acid, two black polythene paper bags, four surgical hand gloves and six tablets of Nitrest 10mg medicine.

The accused persons who were represented by lawyer John Swaka were each released on cash bail of Sh200,000 with one contact person pending the mention of the case on January 27.

It is said that police officers posing as hit-men for hire on the material day managed to arrest the woman and her brother as they plotted to kill her Swiss boyfriend before stealing his money.

Police, the Swiss national, who is the complainant in the case, had arrived in Nairobi on December 26 and was booked in a hotel in Westlands and was to check out on December 31, 2023.

It is said that on December 29, 2023, the woman aged 43 and who according to police stayed at Ngara approached a hit man seeking help to eliminate the foreigner.

Undercover team

The man who had been approached got jittery and approached the police. An undercover team of two was arranged for the mission and met the woman in Ngara on December 30, 2023 to plan the way forward.

According to police, the woman told them the Swiss had 850 Euros. She informed them that before the foreigner is killed, he must transfer all the money to her account.

She also produced a bank statement showing that from March 17, 2023 to June 10, 2023 she received Sh9.2 million from the said foreigner.

After deliberations, the undercover officers agreed with the lady on the terms of engagement which included equal sharing of the money realized after the murder of the foreigner.

The suspect requested the female undercover officer to help her with a fake photo for the purpose of making a fake identity card that will be used to rent an apartment where the mission will be carried out.

The fake identity card was made with a different name. On the night of December 30, the female undercover officers accompanied by the suspect and his brother went to Westlands to hire an apartment and thereafter the suspect invited the foreigner for dinner in the said house.

As they were proceeding to the house, other DCI officers who were waiting pounced on the suspects and arrested them.