Man steals girlfriend shoes to gift his other lover as Christmas gift

A man accused of stealing his girlfriend shoes and gifting them to his other girlfriend has denied the theft charges levelled against him.

Ryan Lusalishi was arraigned before the Makadara Law Courts on Thursday, where the court heard that he stole a laptop worth Ksh.25,000, a bag, and a pair of shoes from Elizabeth Okumu between November 7 and 8 this year in Nairobi.

According to Ms Okumu who testified before Principal Magistrate Gathogo Sogomo, she returned to her house from work to find some items rearranged.

Upon inspection, she said she found out that the laptop, a pair of shoes, a bag and an ATM card were missing.

Okumu told the court that on the same day, she had received a text of a failed transaction for a wrong PIN and figured that someone was trying to use her missing ATM card.

Efforts to enquire from her neighbours and the caretaker of any access to her house by a stranger did not yield any information, and she suspected it was her boyfriend and reported the matter to the police.

Lusalishi’s other girlfriend, who is also a witness in the case, told police during investigations that he returned home with the items and gifted her the shoes which were not her size.