A dramatic twist has emerged in the mysterious death of British national Andrew Paul Hayward, 58, who collapsed and died at an ATM lobby in Kinoo, Kiambu County on the night of July 21, 2025, after visiting a local guesthouse and withdrawing an unspecified sum of money.
In a confidential off-court communication captured in a leaked audio recording shared with this publication by trusted court sources, a woman currently held in police custody in connection with the case has made explosive allegations that now place a police officer at the heart of what may no longer be treated as a natural death, but potentially a concealed homicide.
Speaking to unnamed intermediaries on the sidelines of a court session on Thursday, the woman believed to have been the British national’s companion for hire on the day of the incident recounted that they were at a Kinoo-based guesthouse shortly before his death.
According to her, she and the deceased had already settled into a room at the guesthouse when a conversation arose around accessing additional funds.
The Briton, she claims, encountered a logistical hitch that necessitated a cash withdrawal to proceed with what she alluded to as a mutually understood engagement.
While the precise moment at which a uniformed police officer entered this unfolding scenario is not clearly elaborated, the woman insists that Hayward ultimately departed the guesthouse in the direct company of this officer.
Whether the officer had been stationed in the vicinity, was called upon, or arrived by coincidence is not clarified in her statement.
Nevertheless, she is categorical on one point that the British national exited the premises alongside the officer, ostensibly to facilitate the cash withdrawal he required.
Meanwhile, she remained in the room awaiting Hayward’s return, unaware that events were about to take a fatal turn.
Hours later, she claims, the same officer returned to the guesthouse, alone and visibly perturbed, and informed her, without explanation that the foreigner was dead.
Startled by the abruptness of the revelation and disoriented by the absence of any formal documentation or official protocol, the woman says she barely had time to register what was unfolding before she was taken into custody.
No details, she alleges, were provided regarding her status or the specific grounds of her arrest.
What followed, according to the woman, was even more unsettling as the officer proceeded to arrest her, but instead of taking her directly to the police station, diverted the route and drove her to what she described as a remote forested area.
She believes that the pause served as an improvised holding point, possibly affording the officer time to coordinate the narrative or determine how best to formally process the situation or how to construct a case implicating her as a person of interest.
Only after this detour was she taken into official custody.
The Briton’s death was initially reported by local media as an unfortunate medical episode, with police suggesting that he collapsed and died shortly after withdrawing money at an ATM in Kinoo.
However, the absence of a conclusive autopsy report, coupled with new claims from the detained woman, could lead speculation that the incident was mishandled or deliberately mischaracterized.
Equally alarming is the claim that the woman is being held over the trial, despite offering a clear and testable sequence of events that could easily be verified or refuted through existing surveillance footage.
The guesthouse in question, she argues, retains digital video records, which, if retrieved and analyzed, could provide irrefutable evidence of the officer’s involvement in escorting Hayward from the premises and by extension, his responsibility for the chain of events that followed.
In the audio, the woman is heard expressing anguish and frustration, stating not only her innocence, but her desire to see justice served both for Hayward, whose final moments remain obscured, and for herself, as a woman she believes is being used as a convenient scapegoat in a potentially larger cover-up.
This publication understands that representatives from the British High Commission were briefed on the case in the immediate aftermath of the incident but it remains unclear to what extent the emerging allegations have been formally conveyed to them or whether they have been factored into the ongoing investigative posture.
As the case now continues, the full truth of what transpired on the night of July 21 remains both elusive and politically fraught.
We will continue to monitor developments closely and will pursue further clarity from both investigative and diplomatic actors as pressure mounts for an impartial, transparent inquiry into the full circumstances surrounding the death of Andrew Paul Hayward.
