The jerrycan seemed innocent enough. So did the walking stick. Nothing about Hillary Langat's arrival that evening of August 25, 2025, suggested the horror he was about to unleash on his wife's family in their Koitabai home in Kaporuso area of Kembu, Bomet County.
Family members welcomed him, though the unannounced visit felt unusual. They could not have known that the container he carried held petrol, or that within minutes, their semi-permanent kitchen would become an inferno that would claim three lives and leave a four-year-old girl fighting for survival.
Days earlier, Langat had quarrelled with his wife, Sheila Chepkemoi, prompting her to return to her parents' home with their child. That evening, he found his mother-in-law, Anna Chemutai Mosonik—who lived with blindness—and his sister-in-law, Ivyne Cherono, in the kitchen.
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