December 2, 2014 - Today's News In Gazetikenya

Heartache for family hit by mystery deaths as girl’s body found in Field

TRAGEDY | Police intensify search for two boys as mystery surrounding lawyer’s family deepens

The body of one of the three missing children whose parents died in mysterious circumstances last week was last evening found dumped near Tatu City in Kiambu County. The discovery diminished hopes of finding the other two children alive. The children have been missing since their father and mother were found dead in what is suspected to be a homicide and suicide case. Police spokesperson Zipporah Mboroki yesterday said the decomposing body of five-year-old Tiffany Muthoni was found on Ngenda Road in Tatu City.

“The deceased was dressed in a pyjama and we suspect the body was burnt using a chemical,” said Ms Mboroki. She further said the search for Tiffany’s brothers, nine-year-old Allen Magu and eight-year-old Ryan Muhiu was still on. Tiffany’s uncle, Mr Andrew Muhiu, said her body was found in an open field and had decomposed. It had a deep cut on the neck and hands. Mr Muhiu positively identified the body at Thika mortuary. The children went missing a week ago, before their father, Mr Paul Magu, was found dead near the Ngoliba Junction on the Thika–Garissa highway.

The mutilated body of the children’s mother, Lydia Wangui, 30, was found near Paradise Lost on Kiambu Road last Monday. She had gone missing on Sunday, last week. “We are also analysing his (Mr Magu’s) call records which we believe may provide crucial leads,” Ms Mboroki said. When the Nation team visited the scene where Lydia’s body was found last week after she was brutally murdered in her matrimonial home in Muthaiga Pipeline Estate, one of the two gunny bags in which the body had been stuffed was still there.

Two witnesses who saw the car dropping the body near Garden Paradise are yet to record statements with the police. Mr Jeremiah Kilemi, a guard at Garden Paradise, yesterday said two men drove into the court in a white Toyota G-Touring but did not talk to him. “I assumed that they were coming to book a venue for a wedding,” he said. After about 10 minutes, they drove out. According to roundsman George Wanjala, the two drove down to the dam and turned the vehicle to face the direction from which they had come. As they were reversing to the dam, they saw Mr Wanjala and got out of the car. They walked to where he was, about 70 metres away. “One of them asked me the cost of hiring the field for a wedding and I told them it was Sh80,000.

He introduced the other man,” said Mr Wanjala. They then drove towards the gate before they joined a path through a coffee plantation. “The car stopped briefly and they got out but I could not see what they were doing as the area is surrounded by coffee bushes. Moments later, we found the body of a woman stuffed in two gunny bags,” he said. It was badly mutilated and burned. At the back of her head was a deep cut.Magu, who was an advocate in Nairobi, had left his matrimonial home in Muthaiga Pipeline Estate in Kiambu with the three children early on Tuesday and told the househelp that he was taking them to their rural home in Thika. According to the househelp, Ms Margaret Njoki, Magu had told her to prepare the children at around 8am. “They then went away together but two hours later, Mr Magu returned without them and told me that he wanted to pick something from the house,” Ms Njoki said. That day, according to Mr Muhiu, his brother spent the night at their father’s rural house in Thika.

 “He looked disturbed and only answered the questions he was asked. He then left early Wednesday morning,” he said. Magu was hit by a bus that was heading to Nairobi from Garissa. The driver of the bus said that the man tried to cross the road when the bus was already too near. At the time of the accident, police said, he had left his car at the side of the road with the engine running. The man had a white jerrican in his hands when he was knocked down. Inside the car detectives found the jackets of the three children, lunch boxes and a key. When they visited Magu’s house on Thursday, they found a lot of blood on the couple’s bed.

Gazeti Kenya

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