Former TV and radio star, Esther Arunga apparently fixed her husband following the tragic and allegedly accidental death of their three-year-old son, Sinclair, at their Kallangur home in Australia.
Esther is said to have recorded a police statement in which she pointed accusing fingers at her husband for murdering their son according to one source based at the Kenyan Embassy in Australia.
Being Kenyan citizens, and with rumours that the opposition may possibly raise the matter in parliament, the embassy was apparently obliged to follow the events surrounding the incident.
The Kenyan Embassy’s legal department and the Attorney General’s office together with their foreign affairs counterparts have reportedly opened a general file to keep track of the matter to evade being accused of laxity in handling Kenyan diaspora matters.
Esther is likely to be the chief prosecution witness and that could partly explain why she was not taken into custody along with her husband.
It is said that when Esther was interrogated by the Australian police, she said that her husband, Quincy had become violent in recent times and kept insisting their now dead son was not his since he was born outside wedlock.
Esther also reportedly implicated her husband directly into the alleged boy's murder. The statement led to the summary conclusion that their son died under painful circumstances.
It is allegedly on the weight of her statement, that Timberlake was arrested last week, and promptly charged with murder at the Brisbane Magistrate’s Court.
He was later remanded until his next court hearing slotted for 4th December this year. However, according to Australian police, Timberlake could be released in three weeks time if his bail request is accepted.
As it currently stands, Quincy could be awarded a life sentence or spend 30 years behind bars if found guilty of their son's murder.
The arrest of Timberlake followed an initial charge of murder after police alleged that an autopsy conducted on Sinclair showed significant internal injuries which they said were inconsistent with injuries sustained from a fall as the Timberlake's narrated.
The couple’s story was that the boy fell down the stairs while playing with his two-year-old sibling at the Kallangur town house in Queensland.
Questions are said to have emerged during investigations into the child's death.
The investigators are said to have delved into the bank account records and lifestyles of the couple and concluded they lived from hand to mouth contrary to their impression on social media channels.
Traced back to Kenya with the help of the Interpol were reports of Esther and her Quincy’s religious associations and mostly over the Finger of The Living God religious group which has since been banished by the government as a cult group.
It was on these grounds that others are floated the theory that the couple sacrificed their son in exchange for other gains.
Additionally, the couple are said to have not informed their relatives of the child's death raising suspicions on why they opted to keep the incident a secret.
Meanwhile, Quincy linked Joseph Hellon to the dead boy and at times, Wilson Malaba. Malaba was the man Esther was engaged to before Hellon ‘prophesied’ that it was Timberlake who was chosen by God to be Esther’s husband.
Malaba at one time revealed that their controversial church allowed group sex at the upmarket Nairobi Runda estate. After the revelation, Malaba was kicked out of their church.
Arunga is now said to making travel arrangements to come back to Kenya.
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