The household of a British girl, who say she died after becoming a member of a cult in Kenya, have received the appropriate to exhume her physique.
When Lutfunisa Kwandwalla died in 2020 on the home of a religious chief in Mombasa, officers blamed “pure causes” and no arrests have been made.
However her household consider she was murdered and have received a court docket bid for a autopsy, within the hope of proving it.
“The court docket order is a victory for justice – it was contact and go,” her brother Imran Admani advised the BBC.
“It was an emotional second in addition to a second of pleasure.”
Ms Kwandwalla, 44, was from Leicester within the UK and arrived in Kenya as a vacationer in August 2019 to go to members of her husband’s household, her brother says.
She was attributable to return to the UK a number of months later, however a coronavirus lockdown and journey restrictions prevented her from leaving Kenya.
Throughout that point she joined a controversial cult within the coastal metropolis of Mombasa, based on her household.
They allege she was killed and her physique buried rapidly to cover proof.
Following final week’s ruling at a court docket in Mombasa, the Kenyan authorities should now exhume Ms Kwandwalla’s physique and conduct a autopsy to verify the reason for her demise.
No one has been arrested in connection to the demise and police data present that there are presently no energetic investigations.
However Ms Kwandwalla’s household advised the BBC that the post-mortem was step one in bringing them a way of closure.
“The following stage to ascertain if it was foul play is to get to the physique. Hopefully very quickly we are going to get to know what occurred to her,” Mr Admani mentioned.