I hope in its verdict, the Attunda District Court in Sigtuna will sentence Nyambu to jail and have her deported to Kenya afterwards. There is sufficient evidence that her action was premeditated (planned). If she was/is mentally unstable as claimed from the psychiatric analysis results, then she would not have taken the children from the shallow water to the deeper side, and pushed them to their death. She did not jump into the water on both occasions. Her confession in court was that when Elias screamed, she got scared and was then hit by the reality of having drowned her sons.
I hope the court prosecutor will consider the real act of pushing the two boys inside the deep water as planned murders by a sane person. Otherwise what Nyambu should have done if she also wanted to die, was to hold both her sons in her hands and jump with them together – the three would have died at once. None of them could swim. This is what turns the ‘insanity plea’ into a premeditated murder, which could only have been done by a normal person.
Nyambu intended NOT to tell the truth about causing the death of her children and only reported to Elias’ father that they had disappeared. How come she could use the telephone at that time, yet had for almost one month blocked all her friends from calling her? She also misled the police during the first search, yet knew that the boys were already dead. She went to sleep in her apartment with the full knowledge that their bodies were lying in the cold autumn water. Why did she strip them of their clothes at the pier? Why did she not strip naked too and jump with them into the shallow water in the beginning? By pushing them inside at that stage, it was enough to regret her action and call off the planned murders. But NO, she ruthlessly went ahead to look for a deep side on another pier and then consciously pushed them to drown. She stayed long enough to hear the screams of Elias as he battled to survive.
Could Nyambu be ‘playing to the gallery’ to win the Court’s sympathy? Who among her Kenya-Stockholm friends can testify that she ever acted insane or committed acts that could be judged as abnormal? She committed cold-blooded murders and her behavior during the last months is evident enough. She could as well be malingering or feigning insanity to avoid imprisonment for her action.
Quite a number of Kenyans have alluded to Nyambu’s characteristics such as being arrogant, sociable, loud, foul-mouthed, and to some extent, irresponsible. They also admit that she loved and cared for her children. Socially, she was outgoing – a party girl, had a number of friends, and was a heavy consumer of alcohol.
Why then, did she change from being a sociable person to a recluse who eventually saw no value in keeping her children alive? Why did she not recognize the existence of Tevin’s father? Siprosa testified in court that the man lives in Juja (Kenya), yet Swedish records show that Tevin’s father is unknown.
Jail, not psychiatric hospital
Nyambu committed double murders and should be punished by a prison sentence, then get deported forever, to Kenya. Scandinavia has lenient punishment for heinous crimes and it is time this changed. For example, there is reconsideration for the first ruling of the Norwegian mass murderer, Anders Breivik, who was declared insane at the moment of murdering 77 people in 2011.
More assessment is currently being made to determine his mental state since a number of people were dissatisfied with the initial results. How on earth could he be mentally imbalanced, yet he had the time and intelligence to write the manifesto: “2083: A European Declaration of Independence” which he sent to over 1000 email addresses, a few hours before bombing the government building in Oslo? He had meticulously planned the murders, thus many people were shocked to hear the verdict of mental disorder, which legally is not a prison sentence. This is what the pychiatrists ruled:
Breivik underwent examination by court-appointed forensic psychiatrists in the autumn of 2011. The psychiatrists diagnosed him with paranoid schizophrenia, concluding that he had developed the disorder over time and was psychotic both when he carried out the attacks and during the observation. He was also diagnosed with abuse of non-dependence-producing substances antecedent of 22 July. The psychiatrists consequently found Breivik to be criminally insane.
In the case of Nyambu, she had a normal social life and communicated with friends both on Facebook, email, KSB and seemed proud and happy about her children, as noted on graduates.com. If she had been overwhelmed by personal problems, then she should have sought for help within her social circles, and professionally, within the various State authorities. At the level of Sigtuna Municipality, she did not take up the help that should have been her last lifeline – social welfare money. She took the application forms but never submitted them for assistance. Instead, she accumulated bills through short-term loans from various banks, then locked herself indoors after getting sacked from work, because she had overstayed in Kenya. She denied her children school and daycare attendance and subjected them to isolation during the period before murdering them.
Tevin and Elias – the victims – had names, lives, a future, friends, family, dreams and hopes. They deserved better than this and so does everybody else in Sweden, regardless of their age. The citizens should demand that if their child or they themselves for that matter are murdered, then the murderer should go to jail for a considerable time for the sake of deterrence, out of safety concerns and justice. To sentence a full-fledged murderer to a psychiatric hospital is simply ridiculous.
He who is merciful to the cruel will end up being cruel to the merciful. It’s like being tolerant of the intolerant. Mercy in judging is also a value, but it shouldn’t cloud one’s judgment to the point of abandoning justice and deterrence all together. The victims and potential victims are more deserving of mercy.
In Sweden, the following degrees of murder apply:
• Murder (Mord) is defined as a planned taking a life of another, and punishable with imprisonment between 10 to 18 years or life. (3-1 § of the Penal Code)
• Manslaughter (Dråp) is an unplanned murder that is considered less serious, either due to the circumstances or the crime itself, punishable with a fixed prison term between 6 and 10 years. (3-2 §)
• Infanticide (Barnadråp) is murder committed by a mother on her child “when, owing to her confinement, she is in a disturbed mental state or in grave distress”, punishable with any prison term up to 6 years. (3-3 §)
• Negligent homicide (Vållande till annans död, literally causing another’s death) is murder committed due to carelessness. For negligent homicide, there are three types of punishments:
1. A fine (day-fines) if the crime is petty,
2. Any prison term up to 2 years, or
3. Any prison term between 6 months and 6 years if the crime is gross. Gross negligence is distinguished by “the taking of a considerable risk leading to the death, or driving a motor vehicle under influence leading to the death”. (3-7 §)
The Swedish Minister of Justice, Beatrice Ask, has recently criticized the current system of punishment for murder, as “persons eligible for sentences higher than 10 years instead are sentenced to that term rather than life imprisonment”. Instead, a term of 18 years imprisonment is considered to be inserted. Currently, the murder and infanticide laws originate from 1962, while the law of negligent homicide was altered in 1993.
Linet Nekesa
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In this video link taken in September 2010, standing next to some of her close friends. One year later same month, she murdered her sons, unbelievable that she is mentally unstable.She is just an irresponsible woman.
Gosh that photo shows how life must be tough for Nyambu.
A baby for papers with a ruthless Swedish man who used to rape her, then got the brought the first son from Kenya.Four years later, murder them and claim madness.What a waste. Nyambu should av remained in Thika and lived with her Makanga boyfriend. Look at how she ran away from Kenya not telling her mum. A confused stupid woman.
Nyambu is not mad,She knows swedes sympathise with women who cry and she pplays the game not to be jailed.
Nyambu looks sweet in the video
Ohhh,I should go and keep nyambu company in her tiny room hoping she won’t murder me
Nyambu is really mentally unstable and sending her to jail is not the answer
There is no question Nyambu’s experience is a tragedy, and I can personally not see a circumstance where I would think my child would be better dead than alive – unless I had lost all hope and thought that there was no hope for my children or my children’s children either. In this case I could see myself deciding to kill my children rather than see them live in misery, pain etc. for the rest of their lives. I imagine this is something along those lines that happened. Or she saw no future for herself, and in her abnormal state (I don’t think anyone is completely sound of mind when they are about to kill themselves), she figured her children were better off dead.
We know way too little about this woman’s history and experience to be able to pass judgment. Whether she had mental health issues, or was simply desperate. How the social services had treated her. Whether she was one of those women who holds a job and still can’t make ends meet. We don’t know if she had those two children with men she thought were stable, but who abandoned her, leaving her as a sole provider. We don’t know whether her friends helped or not. Too many unanswered questions to be able to judge.
On the other hand, the welfare system is a life saver for many who otherwise would simply starve to death. I believe that we all have a duty from God to help those less fortunate than us, and a government safety net is one way to ensure that everyone who needs it has equal access to it (I see this part of my taxes as one way to fulfill this particular God-given duty). Of course those who can work should work – provided they are able to and there are jobs offering living wages – but sometimes people are unable to for various reasons, or need a little help to get back on their feet before they can. In particular, a poor single mother has more to worry, because she needs both to work long hours in order to make ends meet and care for the children.
Linet Nekesa has revealed a common mentality amongst Kenyans in regard to mental health and psychological illnesses. According to the Kenyan layman, mentally disturbed people are actually quite normal but exprience periods of “confusion”, but otherwise are in full control of their faculties. As I understand it the majority of the mentally disturbed retain their intellect and reasoning powers, but suffer from personality disorders that result in their skewered perception of situations. A common assumption we have is that a person cannot be mentally ill because they function and react quite normally. This is what makes the capture of serial killers very difficult because they are so “normal”. We as Kenyans are yet to come to terms with what mental illness actually entails.
Nyambu’s act of violently ending her children lives is undoubtedly repulsive and to many unforgiveable. However, professionals trained in psychology and psychiatry have determined that the woman was indeed disturbed when she committed the act. According to Linet Nekesa Nyambu’s actions were premeditated because she moved from one pier to another and did not jump into the water with the children, clearly indicating premeditation to commit the act according to what she has written. I assume that the doctors examining Nyambu were and are also versed in criminology. This was definately not their first investigative analysis of this kind and given the facts of the case, they proceeded to conclusively find Nyambu mentally disturbed. This in their opinion therefore excludes the possibility of murder being premeditated.
I doubt if Linet and I share the impeccable credentials akin to those possessed by the doctors examining Nyambu, but my conviction is that her actions were more spontaneous than premeditated. In the horrific murder case of Juliet Kavinga some years ago, premeditation was apparent in that the accused had purchased a canvas wrapping and weights to sink the body with. Moreover the man travelled out of Stockholm to dispose of Juliet’s body in an area that is sparsely visited thus minimizing the possibility of the body being accidentally discovered if it ever floated to the surface. This was intricate planning where the accused was in full control of his emotions, calculating and exhibited no signs of any panic after committing the crime. However lack of conclusive forensic evidence tying him to the objects collected at the disposal area enabled the man to go scot-free. In Nyambu’s case, she pushed her children into the water and then ran around in panic, telling half truths of what she had done to the police and the father of the youngest boy. Nyambu was, according to reports at the scene at the time, an emotional mess. Her behavior riddled with overtones of guilt raised suspicions almost at once with the police. Premeditation is often ascertained by the effort that has gone in planning and executing a crime and is moreover very evident by the lengths any accused will go to in evading arrest.
I understand the indignation of many Kenyans and sense of bewilderment that is being experienced especially parents due to Nyambu’s case. The whole saga is regrettable and unfathomable. However, we are often very adept at passing judgment and demanding for, even meting out given the opportunity, harsh retribution especially so when the person in question is not kin and kith. I wonder if our attitude would be the same if Nyambu was a member of our immediate family; a sister, mother, aunty or cousin.
Everybody wants to blame somebody else other than Nyambu, the killer mom. We as a community of Kenyans need to accept that there is zero excuse to kill children. Zero. Nobody would let these children starve or suffer. Did she ever think that turning them into foster care was a lesser option than murder? Or that she couldn’t have gotten some kind of job or turned them over to a Kenya-Stockholmer, or Elias, to his Swedish father? Parents thinking that because the children are in their care that they can do as they please, even destroy them, is like a new unbelievable fad or something. I wish that every person who ever thought about doing something like this would know that they are committing the most selfish, hateful act that anyone can do. Why exit this world as a murdering monster?
It’s time to treat Nyambu who held her own children hostage in her apartment for a month, just like any other terrorist. Parenting is a privilege and the people that don’t want that responsibility should have the heart and brains to do what is best for them—not getting children. This was a very selfish, senseless act of cold blooded murder. My heart breaks for these two dead children who should’ve been shielded from such an animal.
nyambu could have gone to prostitute and get money.she must have been a fool choosing to kill her children.better beg on the streets and tunnelbana than do such a horrible act
I couldn’t agree more,the she-devil should be shipped back to Kenya,and the Nyayo torture chambers opened specifically for her!!She should suffer a slow painful death!!
And as of the pic,it looks like something gotten from the net,ama???????
She should be made to have a hysterectomy and banned from being near children for life
Poor little boys, what awful short lives you must have had. Not knowing why you were treated so badly. May the angels care for you now you are somewhere better than this cruel world of your mother.
To those who are sympathetic towards this woman, can you even begin to imagine the pain her poor children suffered day after day locked inside?! Cartons of pizza found in the house and everything dirty?The boys were the REAL victim in all of this!
Sweden should BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY. How much will it cost the taxpayers to keep this evil woman in a psychiatric hospital?
Poor souls, may they rest in peace, away from the horror, that was their so called Mother. Why didn’t anyone know that something was not quite right?
hope this evil bitch has a horrible life it’s a shame Sweden has no capital punishment…
She could be a junkie. Not ill or mentally ill. These wasters should not be allowed to have children.
This story made me cry what a waste of a young lives, so sad RIP Tevin and Elias!
And now we are going to pay for her to live in better conditions… great.
The Swedish father of Elias had no shared custody with Nyambu and she was stupid enough not to get help from her neighbours, her friends, the welfare services and the schools attended by her sons. If the family courts enforced the right for a child to have a relationship with the father by way of shared custody, then such cases probably wouldn’t disappear but be vastly reduced.
I don’t care what excuses she has she is filth and nothing more.
What about the Swedish father? Why shouldn’t he be partially blamed? Why didn’t he do something to protect his child? This is a terrible thing to happen but it didn’t just happen overnight.
send her to afghanistan, no prison sentence, no hysterectomy. they will feed her to the dogs, bomb her or stone her to death. much cheaper and safer for the taxpayer.
@O.Hatari: Nyambu pushed her children twice into the water. The first time she did so was enough for her to understan how horrible it was. She ought to have returned with them home. However, she was out to kill them. During Day One of the trial, she confessed that her intention had been that all of them, herself and the boys were to die. It means right from the time she left her apartment, she had planned to murder them. The intent was not spontaneous.
A week before murdering them, she confessed that death was the solution to all of them. Here are her words from KSB: A week before the murders, she began thinking about taking her life and the children’s. “I thought heaven was a better place than earth. I was so depressed. It was the only way out.”
In the second push into the water, she only regretted her actions when she heard Elias screaming. She then walked back to her apartment comfortably, only to call her ex-Swedish lover, the father of Elias with a bunch of lies.
I agree with Linet that so far, nothing exhibits a mentally disturbed person from Nyambu’s confessions.
I don’t know what you meant by a Kenyan mentality of assessing who is insane and who is not. The case is in the public domain and one can opine depending on personal bias.
Swedes are soft in dealing with many murder cases and are often biased in judging women who are outright murderers.
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You write that you agree with Linet in your comment then pen-off as Linet. Confusing, as I don’t know which Linet to address.
How should Nyambu have behaved so as to clearly show that she did suffer from a mental disorder? Does a mentally disturbed person behave in a ceratin pre-determined way? Of course she confessed to her crime! Why would she deny the obvious? Only a cold and unremorseful killer would. Is the lack of denial your way of measuring her mental illness or lack thereof? Unfortunately your reasoning is flawed and mediveal in nature.
Here’s a suggestion that you should find appealing, why don’t we then just request the Sewdish authorities to release Nyambu so that you can stone her, tear her to bits or burn her to death aka necklace? I see no difference in the atitude between those beheading others in the name of religion and the venomous suggestions being floated around on KSB by obvious hotheads.
This woman was NOT mentally ill – and I speak from experience – she is cruel selfish and deserves the sentence, To say she was mentally ill is an insult to those who are.
I cannot comprehend how a mother could ever do what this creature did, please bring back capital punishment. I hope the poor little angels can rest in peace now
Why you Judges dont blame the Mama Taxi whoshould also be blamed for her part in destroying Nyambus life?
What has she to say ?
She was left with the two kids when their mother went to Kenia,
Remember this mamas behaviour infront of Kameramen!
Nyambu should be sent to a country where they hang criminals like her
Nyambu acted in a selfish, egoistic and ruthless manner. Too much partying and alcohol led her into stupidity and carelessness. Writing on graduates.com that she loved her children to death was a mere fallacy.Her real nature and that of her mom in Kenya are the same. her mom is similarly ruthless and dealt horribly with Nyambu as she grew up. She has a streak of ruthlessness in her blood. Nothing abnormal in this case but merely her nature – it’s all in her DNA.It was bound to happen.
crucify her, crucify her! Luckily she is in Sweden where they think women canot be murderers. Anywhee else, she would have been beheaded, electrocuted or stoned in the open marketplace.Leading her children from home to the water after locking them indoors for a month and blocking them from going to school, refusing social welfare help and accumulating debts without working, were clear clues of an irresponsible person.
Why did the Prosecutor call her case murder and not manslaughter? Because she PLANNED it. The only twisted side is the “abnormality” angle used to describe her state of mind. In Sweden they brand you a murderer but since she is a womnan they believe she couldn’t do so to her children. I hope the court prosecutor will look at the definition of murder in Sweden.
• Murder (Mord) is defined as a planned taking a life of another, and punishable with imprisonment between 10 to 18 years or life. (3-1 § of the Penal Code)
Murder is an intended act and that is the word used by the Prosecutor in Nyambu’s case.
What a waste.from kenya to sweden where one should be more comfortable she went ahead and did the worst crime.lynching her is the only answer.
she’s already offciailly a murderer
jela ndio njia pekee.women starve in kenya under too much pressure yet they rarely kill their kids
He who without a sin late him through the first stone, the words from the sun of God himself, he sat there holding a stone bat did not through the stone. Fellow Kenyans, this tragedy has hit the African society in Sweden, other Africans when ask they well say that woman was from Kenya, and what do Kenyans do, we start throwing stones to a fellow Kenyan, I never knew her personally I could care less if she was a devil or an angel, she committed a serious crime, thanks lord none of as are going to be people to come with the verdict of guilty or not.
So late think before throwing stones we are all leaving in glass house, when pleasure and stress come knocking on your door where are going to run? Take it from a man who came here as a young lad 22yeras ago without any adult Kenyans to look up and admire we had to survive by our own. Any one who has an opinion without heating on problem is a idiot.
Late as give justices a chance not mob justice, it is a price we pay living in the western world.
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Mwambao no. 37: you are the idiot because the blog does not apportion jail sentences or psychiatric help. It only gauges various thoughts. Nyambu will be judged in a Swedish court of law according to all the investigations done by the assigned State authorities. Where is the mob justice or you are just excited writing meaningless things? The day of judgment is on 8th March 2012 and she will live by what is decided in the Court, not by you or any other Kenyan.
http://ktnkenya.tv/?id=2000052206
Nyambu är en mördare, men hur hon kommer att bedömas beror på hennes mentala kapacitet. Det skulle inte vara förvånande om domen visar sig vara fängelse. Det är därför det fanns en uppmaning till mer rättspsykiatrisk analys under rättegången i januari. Alla kommer att bero på den slutliga granskning av resultaten av undersökningarna. Annars just nu hon är under fliken “psykiskt instabil”.