The Source of Injuries on the Late Caroline Mwatha’s Neck Revealed

When news went round that Dandora based Human Rights activist Caroline Mwatha had gone missing, various assumptions were made.

From Kidnapping tales to murder claims, the internet was set a blaze with Kenyans becoming investigators and informers at the same time.

Caroline was later found but this time not leading a demonstration against extrajudicial killings, she was found in a Morgue, dead.

Her death sent shockwaves across the country with many people quick to point out that it was murder.

A Pathological examination therefore had to be conducted real fast to ascertain the true cause of Caroline’s death.

 

The Post-mortem examination would later all but confirm the DCI’s abortion theory.

Caroline died of excessive bleeding from a ruptured uterus after a botched abortion.

Independent Pathologist Peter Ndegwa said that Ms Mwatha had a male foetus of five to six months still inside her womb, but which is mutilated, one hand is missing and the skull badly injured.

“The uterus was perforated at the backside. There was an attempt to dismember the foetus because one hand was missing and part of the skull was injured,” Dr Ndegwa said.

The examination showed that, apart from needle marks which showed some medical intervention, she did not have any other physical injury on the body or any signs of struggle but she had internal bleeding and external bleeding, the pathologist said.

Dr Ndegwa said the injury on her neck was due to an embalming procedure at the City Mortuary, where she was booked as a private citizen.

However, the pathologist said that despite the post-mortem being conclusive, it is upon investigators to establish the circumstances under which she died.

He said it is upon them to establish if the abortion was done with or without her intention.

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