Mwanamke mmoja Judy Wanjiku 73, pamoja na bintiye Catherine Nyaguthi, 48 wamekutwa wamenyongwa mpaka kufa wakiwa vyumbani kwao katika nyumba waliyokua wakiishi nchini Kenya.
Kwa mujibu wa taarifa ya Kamanda wa polisi jijini Nairobi nchini humo, ni kamba tu iliyotumika kuwanyonga ndiyo iliyokutwa huku mama wa binti huyo shingo yake ikifungwa kwenye mguu wa kitanda.
Hakuna mtu anayeshikiliwa mpaka sasa licha ya mlinzi wa nyumba kusema kwamba mara ya mwisho aliwaona wakishushwa na gari aina ya prado.
Mystery surrounds the macabre murder of a 73-year-old woman and her 47-year-old daughter whose bodies were found lying in separate bedrooms in Nairobi’s South B estate.
Mrs Judy Wanjiku Mwai, 73 and her daughter Catherine Nyaguthi Mwai, 47 were the only occupants of their house when the incident happened on Sunday within Golden Gate court.
Their bodies were discovered on Monday evening by a relative who had gone to visit them.
According to police and neighbours, the two were last seen on Sunday afternoon when they were dropped by a black four-wheel-drive car.
Mrs Mwai is a retiree of treasury while her daughter retired from a local bank. When the relative arrived at the home, she did not get a response and was forced her to check the bedrooms upstairs where she stumbled on the bodies.
She then called the police who arrived at the scene and established that the elderly woman had been strangled using a sisal rope. Her body was lying on the bed with the rope around her neck and tied on the bed stand. According to preliminary findings, blood was oozing from her mouth.
The body of Nyaguthi was found on the floor of her bedroom and had injuries on her neck indicating strangulation. Neighbours said the two were the only occupants of the house at the time of the incident.
Their neighbours were not present at the time the incident happened.
Police said there were signs of struggle in the house which indicated more than two people were involved in the incident. Nothing was stolen from the house as electronics including the victims’ mobile phones were found on them.
Senior police officers visited and processed the scene of the crime before moving the bodies to the mortuary. Nairobi Police boss Philip Ndolo said no arrest had been made. He added they had not established the motive of the killings.
“This seems to be murder but experts are on the ground are looking for leads. We are yet to know the motive,” he said.
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Police are investigating the murder of a woman and her daughter after their bodies were discovered in a house in Nairobi’s South B estate.
They said, Judy Wanjiku Mwai, 73 and her 47-year-old daughter, Catherine Nyaguthii Mwai, were the only occupants of their house when the incident happened on Sunday at Golden Gate Court.
Their bodies were discovered Monday evening by a relative who had gone to visit them.
Both bodies appear to have been strangled with sisal ropes which were found tied around their necks.
Mrs Mwai is a retiree of the National Treasury while her daughter retired from a local bank. Police said nothing was stolen from the two.
Neighbours told police they last saw the two on Sunday when they were dropped off in the compound by a Toyota Land cruiser.
Elsewhere, the DCI detectives from Parklands on Monday arrested Mr. Allan Andayi Osale- an Accountant at Kericho Law Courts, in connection with two stolen vehicles (Toyota V8s: KBU 933N & KBQ 260Z). The two vehicles were reported stolen from Nippon Korea Investment Ltd Yard in Nyali in 2014.
Detectives established that the two vehicles were among five vehicles that were stolen from Nyali and their Chassis numbers changed.
Further investigations from NTSA revealed that the real registered number Plates were KBW 122H and KBQ 805T whose chassis numbers had been altered.
The two motor vehicles were recovered from the residence of the suspect at Syokimau in November 2018 and had been detained at Parklands Police Station as Further enquires into the matter continued.
