The newly crowned Miss Lang'ata Women's Prison Ruth Kamande has been a topic of intense discussion during the last few days. Some sections of the society, especially Team Mafisi and Mafisi Sacco members, cannot come to terms of how such a dazzling beauty could be cooling her heels at a prison.

Today, the beauty queen had the chance to explain to court the circumstances surrounding her brutal act when she attacked her boyfriend with a knife, stabbed him 22 times and killed him. Ruth told the court that fits of jealousy and rage a day before she allegedly stabbed Farid Mohammed led to her actions.

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The High Court heard on Tuesday that Ruth reacted that way to old high school love letters she found her boyfriend with. Trial judge, Jessie Lessit, heard that she became angry at the 24-year-old after discovering the letters.

“She was angry and demanded to know why he still kept the letters,” Mohammed's uncle Edward Gatonye told the court.

Edward said the couple had planned to attend a party a day before Mohammed was found lying in a pool of blood at his rented house in Buru Buru Estate, Nairobi. He told the court that he decided to go to his nephew's home after failing to reach him via phone.

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“I found him at home with Kamande. We used to call her Biggy. When I inquired why his phone was off, Farid told me she had blocked it. He also told me she was unhappy because she had found old high school letters from women," he said.

He added that he got worried after Ruth left them in the sitting room and locked herself in the bedroom. The uncle, who said he met the woman just two months before the incident, noted that he found her actions disturbing.

He said Ruth only came out of the room at lunch time to buy chips which she served herself and Mohammed.

“Farid had previously complained to me about her. He told me she was forcing him to let her stay with him yet he did not want this,” he said.

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Mohammed's sister Serah Waithera, who was called as the third witness, described the couple's relationship as stormy and one-sided. She said Ruth pushed her brother too far and that her expectations did not match his.

“She came to my workplace and introduced herself as my brother’s girlfriend. From then on she would complain to me when they had problems but my brother would deny their relationship. One time I advised her not to force the relationship," she told the court.

Ruth denied brutally murdering Mohammed on September 20, 2015. The trial will resume on November 25.