A police officer stands besides the body of a young girl that was dumped by the road side at the Ole Lerogi gardens in Lavington November 29,2009. Photo/HEZRON NJOROGE
By MUCHEMI WACHIRA and CASPER WAITHAKA Posted Sunday, November 29 2009 at 22:30
Two women were killed in Nairobi in separate incidents on Sunday. The first reported death was at the posh Lavington neighbourhood, where the body of a woman in her early 20s was found dumped on a footpath at the Ole Lerogi Gardens.
Reacting to the incident, neighbours said they had been witnessing some ‘weird’ happenings inside a house adjacent to the scene, and that their complaints to the police had yielded no response.
“Sometimes we hear people making merry overnight in the house, while other times we hear people crying out hysterically. On yet other occasions, there is a lot of quarrelling and insults within that house,” a neighbour said, adding that a string of luxury vehicles regularly snakes into the compound from midnight and leaves just before dawn.
However, Kilimani police boss Francisio Nyamantari termed the incident a normal act of savagery, and said the woman appeared to have been murdered elsewhere.
In the other incident, an Air Force service man attached to the Moi Air Base was suspected of killing his wife after a domestic argument in Umoja. Their househelp said the woman had arrived home at around eight in the evening on Saturday, after which she picked a quarrel with the husband.
Naked body
“He locked me and their child inside the kitchen as the quarrel got heated,” the househelp said. “But, towards dawn, everything suddenly went quiet. I called a neighbour to come and free us in the morning, and that’s when we discovered the naked body sprawled on the floor.”
The suspect was still at large at the time of going to press. Neighbours told the Nation the couple quarrelled a lot, and that they assumed the deadly fight was just another one of those squabbles.
Source: Daily Nation
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