Bomet: A Beautiful Girl’s Journey to Seek Justice After Her Father Brutally Killed Her Mother

For five years, Anita Tonui faced her father in court after he brutally killed her mother, Emmy, in a deliberate attack that tore their family apart.
Anita’s younger siblings, then six in high school, watched as their father burned their mother, a trauma that has haunted them ever since.
In a live interview with TUKO, the beauty told how five years of patience to get justice turned out to be one of the hardest things she has ever done

Torturous, heartbreaking and emotionally exhausting are the words Anita Tonui would have used to describe five years ago.

Anita Tonui recounted her five-year wait to get justice for her mother.
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For those five years, she sat in a courtroom, watching the man who raised her and killed her mother.

The night of October 7, 2020

In October 2020, her father, Robert Kipkorir, traveled about 20 kilometers with a well-planned plan to kill her mother, Emmy, on a night that changed the entire life of Anita and her siblings.

Speaking to TUKO.co.ke, the 28-year-old beauty said that her mother, Emmy, had moved in with her parents after her husband left to seek asylum, fearing for her safety.

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“My father had sworn repeatedly to him and even to me, that one day, he would kill her. Other times, he would say that either he or my mother would die. And so my mother lived with this fear, but it was so dangerous for her that she had to go to stay at her parents’ house for safety,” Anita narrated.

While at her parents’ house, Emmy told the local chief about her fear that her husband would succeed in dealing with his threat.

“He talked to the chief about a week before he was killed by my father,” he recalled.

On that fateful day, the then 50-year-old man traveled to his wife’s parents, 20 kilometers from his home, with petrol and ready to end his life.

After arriving, he sat still, waiting for the moment when he would plan his assassination. Anita remembers that her father waited for everyone to leave, and when her mother was only with her six-year-old son, the worst happened.

The man poured gasoline on Emmy, a teacher, and without thinking twice, he lit a match stick, and flames engulfed his body, causing him serious injuries.

Even the presence of Anita’s younger brother did not stop the man from doing that horrible act.

“My brother, at that time six years old, was very scared and had to run screaming, calling for help while watching the fire consume my mother. My younger sister, at that time in secondary school, had to take off her clothes to cover my mother, that day changed our lives because it was my two younger siblings who had to remember what happened,” he recalled.

Anita’s push for justice for her mother

For example, his mother was not there, and their life was disrupted.

At that time, at the age of 23, and the first born, Anita had to make it her personal mission to seek justice, while also caring for her younger siblings and providing for their needs.

She remembers the pain and trauma of continuing life without her parents as her father was now under police custody, being the main suspect in her mother’s brutal murder.

“My father, a man who was supposed to love and protect him. At that time he broke everything I knew about love, family and security. That one act destroyed not only his life but also ours,” he said.

He and his brothers turned to the Kenyan justice system, determined not to rest until justice was served.

But he quickly learned that the wheels of justice move slowly. He didn’t know at that time, he was entering into the pursuit of justice, which would make him remember his mother’s death every time it was mentioned and heard in court.