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A Kiambu court has allowed detectives to detain Gladys Chania for seven days to complete investigations into the murder of her husband George Mwangi.

The Kiambu politician, the prime suspect in the brutal murder of her 58-year-old husband, was yesterday arraigned in court but no charges were preferred against her.

Chania alongside her co-accused Moris Mbugua appeared before Kiambu Resident Magistrate Wilson Radin, who ordered Chania be remanded at Gigiri Police Station and Morris at Muthaiga Police Station.

Prosecution made a miscellaneous application seeking 14 days to detain the duo but the magistrate granted them seven after which the suspects will take pleas.

Chania, who unsuccessfully gunned for the Kiambu Woman Rep in the August polls, was arrested last week in connection with the death of Mwangi.

Mwangi’s charred body was found dumped in Kieni forest.

It is alleged after establishing the father of their three children was intimately involved with another woman, the politician plotted his murder.

Mwangi, a Rwanda-based contractor, came to the country on September 13 and was due to fly back on the day he was murdered.  According to detectives, Mwangi and his wife had a frosty relationship after she established that he was having an intimate relationship.

Mwangi’s family told sleuths that the deceased had introduced the other woman as his second wife.

Before meeting his death, Mwangi alongside the other woman and Chania had allegedly attended a family gathering in Kimunyu in Gatundu North. The deceased later returned to his Mang’u home after dropping the other woman and reportedly found Chania already at home.

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Detectives gathered the two had planned to go out the following day but he did not turn up as agreed.

The woman in question, identified as Lucy Muthoni, who has since recorded a statement with the police, said she tried calling Mwangi from a friend’s phone but was told by the suspect he had left his phone behind and gone for a walk.

Asked why she did not call him directly, she said she hardly did so whenever he was with his wife because the accused had previously reprimanded her over calls to the husband.

Chania told investigators the deceased left the house on foot on Sunday, September 9, at 10am and never returned. She reported him missing at the Mwea Police Station at 8pm on Tuesday, September 11.

Eyewitness reportedly saw a pick-up speed towards Kieni forest, where the body was later discovered wrapped in black polythene papers under a stack of boxes and empty cement bags.

Detectives also established the suspect had recruited a Morris Kamau to replace one John Mwangi at the residence.

Conspicuously, Morris was employed on the day of the murder after John reportedly failed to return after being sent to deposit cash on M-Pesa.

During her arrest, Chania was driving the pickup car, which had bloodstains on the cabin floor.