Apeeping Tom’s 40 days ran out dramatically after he was mistaken for a thief, cornered and clobbered like a snake in Nairobi’s Githurai estate.
The 27-year-old man, surnamed Muchiri, is believed to have been in the habit of deriving pleasure from secretly watching female neighbours bath in the community bathroom and couples having sex.
This seems to have been going on for a while, until last week Tuesday when he found himself between the hammer and the anvil, after he was busted red-handed.
“Women in this ‘plot’ have been complaining that there is someone who peeps at them while bathing in the shared bathroom, but the culprit always takes off when discovered,” revealed James Mwangi, as he narrated the latest incident.
Seemingly, after playing hide and seek with bathing women for a while, Muchiri took the game a notch higher and began peeping at couples having sex in the one room houses.
But on this particular day, he was unlucky. A neighbour busted him peeping into one of the houses through the window, where a couple is believed to have been making love and raised an alarm.
“The neighbour mistook him for a thief and began wailing for help, prompting others tenants to come out with all manner of crude weapons, ready to teach the ‘thief’ a lesson,” said Mwangi.
The irate neigbours unleashed terror on the peeping Tom, thinking he was a notorious thief who was trying to break into the house. When the beating became too much for him to bear with, he began begging for audience to come clean on what exactly he was doing.
“Insisting that he was not a thief but a neighbour, he begged fellow tenants to stop beating him and give him time to explain himself. In his mistaken judgement, he thought claiming that he was just peeping at couples making love was a better excuse, than being confused for a thief,” said Mwangi.
Instead, neighbours got more furious, demanding that he confesses to being the notorious peeping Tom who had been giving their wives nightmares when bathing.
“Could you be the same miscreant who steals our wives underwear in the bathroom?” Wondered one of the neighbours loudly, as he went hammer and tongs at Muchiri.
Caught between a rock and a hard place, Muchiri owned up. It took the intervention of a few kind-hearted neighbours who pleaded with the irate mob to forgive him.
The bachelor who lives in the neigbourhood limped away from the scene in a hurry and has not been seen for almost a week now.
It’s believed that he is too embarrassed to live in the ‘plot’ and is reportedly now staying with a friend not far from the area.
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