This archive report was first published on 7 July 2020.
On July 2, the bodies of Alvina Mutheu, 3, and Henry Jackton, 4, were discovered in a car parked at Athi River Police Station, after going missing on June 11.
Chief government pathologist Johansen Oduor conducted the postmortem examination, but was unable to determine the cause of death due to the advanced state of decomposition.
‘We tried looking for any injury which can give us a clue as to what caused the death but we didn’t see any injuries so as at this moment we are unable to say what exactly caused the death of the two children because of the level of decomposition,’ Oduor said.
According to Oduor, the bodies had decomposed for over three weeks, with evidence of maggots and pupae present.
‘Maggots come from flies…a fly lays eggs, after that it turns into larvae then pupae then adult. We usually rely on those because we can say definitely these people were there from three to four weeks, reason being all those stages are there,’ Oduor explained.
The DCI is now targeting to record statements from 15 individuals, including police officers from the station, to unravel the mystery surrounding the deaths of the minors.
