A 52-year-old man from Kenya who once had his wife locked up in a mental facility when she tried to escape him with their children is now accused of trying to hire a hitman to kill her in Connecticut, state cops said.
A confidential informant (CI) identified only as an Uber driver was at the center of a police investigation report on Leonard Thuo Mwithiga.
Connecticut State Police said the CI picked up Mwithiga for multiple rides between Sept. 9 and Dec. 1, during which the suspect talked about his divorce, called his wife “evil,” and ultimately asked the CI to find a “hitman” to kill her — possibly by injecting the woman “with something to make her very sick, ‘Like a cancer,”” that would kill her slowly.
“[The witness] stated that eventually, Mwithiga would set up rides via personal text, outside of the ‘Uber’ platform” and that during these rides the CI “began to record conversations” where Mwithiga expressed “he was considering harming his wife.”
