Australian woman murdered in Kenyan street 'feared husband's violent, uncontrollable anger'

An Australian mother reportedly lived in fear of her husband before she was shot dead in a Kenyan street last year in an apparent robbery gone wrong.

Gabrielle Maina, a 40-year-old school teacher, was shot dead by armed men riding a motorbike while walking near her Nairobi home in the suburb of Karen on October 19.

On Wednesday the ABC reported, citing court documents, that Mrs Mania, accused her estranged husband and father of their two sons, Cyrus Bernard Maina Njuguna, of psychological torture and had been granted a restraining order against him six months before her murder.

In an affidavit to a Nairobi court in April 2017, Mrs Maina said her husband "became extremely violent and was of uncontrollable anger" following a move to Kenya from Australia with their two sons in 2016.

Mr Njuguna, in an August affidavit, said he was not violent and accused his wife had been the one to grown distant and end the relationship after she had an affair.

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"It is not in the least bit true that I became extremely violent or exhibited uncontrollable anger... it is actually the Petitioner who suddenly began distancing herself from me on or about August 2016," the affidavit read.

Mr Njuguna and his cousin John Njuguna Waithira, were arrested in relation to her murder, but released without charge on November 1.

Police continue to investigate her murder.