| PHOTO: | Grace Wangechi Kinyanjui and top her Muzungu man |
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By:
Job Weru
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Jun,12-2016 17:24:12
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Grace Wangechi Kinyanjui, the woman who succumbed to bullet wounds on June 4 in Karen, Nairobi, was not an ordinary girl.
Born in a staunch Presbyterian family in Ndaiga, Laikipia County, Wangechi, 42, lived in Nairobi and rarely visited her rural home.
"She was dressed like a Muslim woman. I was surprised when I saw her smoking a pipe. I thought she was married to a Muslim," he said, adding that Wangechi had been seen with two white boyfriends before she met British national Richard David Alden, 52, who has been arrested and charged with her murder.A neighbour we spoke to and who did not wish to be identified, was cagey about Wangechi's exact occupation in Nairobi, but revealed that it was common knowledge that the deceased operated between Nairobi and Mombasa. Another neighbour who equally sought anonymity said he last saw Wangechi during her father's burial last year.
Although Alden initially told police that Wangechi shot herself, Nairobi police boss, Japheth Koome, said preliminary investigations have revealed it was a possible murder, hence the arrest.
A visit to her parents' home in Mwichuiri Two farm in Ndaiga almost turned tragic when angry relatives chased journalists out of the homestead.
A man we found at the homestead said, "We do not want anything to do with the media since you have been consistently misreporting this case. If you want any information, go to Nairobi and seek out the family members from there."
Alden was a licensed gun-holder, although police now claim the licence he had was fake. Police confiscated his Glock pistol, serial number WSF494, with 34 rounds of ammunition. Alden had held the 'licence' for four years since 2012, and allegedly bought the firearm from a gun's shop near Utalii House in Nairobi on July 2014. Police found a single cartridge case at in Alden's five--bedroom house in the upmarket neighbourhood of Karen. The cartridge has been taken for forensics.
Although it is known that Wangechi hailed from the village which neighbours Katheri and Mathagiro in Meru County, details about her life there are scanty, an indication that she left for town many years ago and did not socialise with villagemates on the rare occasions she visited.
According to our investigations, Wangechi went to the nearby Nyariginu Primary School and sat her Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exams in late 1980s. An elder said her father, Kinyanjui, was a strict disciplinarian, one who was engaged in myriad community projects. Wangechi was Kinyanjui's second born child.
"I did not know her well, but I spotted her about two times with her mzungu friend. I saw her during her father's burial and on two other occasions with a mzungu," said the elder.
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