Screen shot from Kenyan Television Network (KTN)
A die-hard united football fan, John Jimmy Macharia has taken the term literally, jumping to his death after his team lost their Saturday (December 7) EPL match to New castle.
According to Nairobi County Police Chief Benson Kibue,
the 23-year-old lad told his friends that he could not stand to watch
his team beaten twice in a row before he committed suicide ‘All
witness accounts suggest he committed suicide because the team lost, but
officers are still talking to those who were with him as part of the
investigations into the incident’ Kibue told Kenya’s Standard Online.
Other sources revealed that Macharia
jumped to his death from the seventh floor of a building in Nairobi’s
Pipeline Estate few minutes after the Red Devils lost 1-0 to Newcastle
in English Premier League action.
Thereafter, the police chief advised the
youth in the city to understand that football matches are just games
and those who play them get paid for it ‘It is not the first time we
are losing a young man because of the football in England, which is far
away from us. They need to know that it is just a game’ said Kibue.
Macharia is said to have landed on his
head dying instantly. His body was deposited in a near-by mortuary by
the policemen who arrived on the scene.
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