This archive report was first published on 16 September 2019.
On September 16, 2019, a 24-year-old woman, Anne Kathure, was found brutally murdered in Meru, Kenya.
She had gone missing for several days after leaving work at the Office Inn nightclub on Thursday night, never to reach home.
Her clothes, including a trouser, top, jumper, pair of shoes, and a brassiere, were found dumped outside their house.
According to her husband, Nicholas Murimi, 29, Anne failed to get back home at the end of her shift at 11.00 pm, and her phone was switched off.
‘I was worried when she did not turn up and her phone was switched off. None of her colleagues would tell me anything concrete,’ Nicholas Murimi said.
Anne was a mother of a 15-month-old baby and had been working at the Office Inn club for just two months.
Her death comes barely two days after Robina Moraa was found murdered at her house in Eldoret.
Reactions to the murder include:
- ‘These murders are a direct result of police failure to conclusively investigate murder cases. Getting away with murder is the norm in Kenya,’ Peter Kimani said.
- ‘We have lost humanity as a society,’ Charles Oyago stated.
- ‘She has been found brutally killed, those who did that may they never find peace,’ Rudiah Wa Muchunu said.
- ‘Which place is safer in our motherland? God’s protection to prevail,’ Amos Cheruiyot asked.
- ‘Been living around this place for less than two months and this is not the only similar case,’ Fridah Muthinja noted.
