A High Court has found Naftali Kinuthia guilty of the murder of Medical student Ivy Wangechi.
Justice Reuben Githinji ruled that the prosecution had proved the offence of murder and the accused stands convicted.
The judge trashed Kinuthia's defence in which the accused claimed he was provoked after Ivy ended their love relationship and went for another man.
The judge noted that although Kinuthia had claimed that they had an intimate relationship there was evidence of the same.
"Even text messages reviewed did not prove evidence of an intimate relationship and the the accused did not also prove a sexual relationship with the deceased," Githinji said.
He noted that the accused used a lethal weapon- an axe and hit the deceased several leaving her with no chance of survival.
"If he did not want to kill her he would have used bare feasts on her and not the axe," Githinji said.
The judge noted that claims of provocation by Kinuthia were not true.
Kinuthia followed the proceedings virtually from the Eldoret GK prison as the judge delivered it virtually from Malindi where he is currently stationed.
The family of the deceased and the prosecution have demanded a maximum sentence for murder against Kinuthia.
The judge set November 22 for mitigation and sentencing against Kinuthia.
Wangechi was hacked to death outside the Moi Referral Hospital in Eldoret on April 9, 2019.
Naftali had earlier narrated how the incident happened when he gave his final defence evidence in the murder case.
Kinuthia said he had travelled to Eldoret on the material day to personally wish Ivy a happy birthday even though their relationship was estranged and that she had blocked his phone for some time making it impossible for him to reach her.
He says he tried severally to reconcile their differences and communicated to her through a friend identified as Mary Ann Chepkoech.
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