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<\/div>Police estimate that the woman is in her early twenties.<\/strong> [File, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n The youthful woman who was killed, stashed in a suitcase and her body dumped near the GSU barracks\u00a0in Kimbo, Kiambu County\u00a0on Monday evening has been identified as Esther Wambui.\n<\/p>\n She worked as a petrol station attendant in Juja, and lived in Ruiru. <\/p>\n Until her death, Wambui was married to a man whom she worked with at the filling station. The two had been together for one-and-a-half years, an informant close to the couple told The Standard.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n Attendants at the City Mortuary, who received her body on Monday evening, described her as a \u201cpetite woman, who appears to be in her early twenties\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cHer appearance resembles that of a college girl,\u201d one of the attendants told The Standard<\/em> in confidence.\n<\/p>\n Wambui had been stashed in the suitcase naked, with her hands tied at the back and her legs bound together.\n<\/p>\n On Tuesday, her spouse had filed a missing person\u2019s report at the Juja Police Station. He was advised to check whether the body of the woman moved to City Mortuary the previous night was that of his spouse. <\/p>\n When he arrived at City Mortuary on Tuesday evening, he was taken to where Wambui\u2019s body had been preserved.\n<\/p>\n \u201cUpon viewing the body, he broke into tears. He later confirmed that the woman was his wife of nearly two years,\u201d an attendant at City Mortuary told The Standard.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n Police had taken Wambui\u2019s body to the facility on Monday night after collecting it from the scene where it had been dumped.\n<\/p>\n Wambui\u2019s finger prints were processed, with the hope of establishing her identity. However, before police could conclude their findings, her spouse showed up at the morgue and positively identified her.\n<\/p>\n Her body remains preserved at the morgue, pending postmortem. <\/p>\n Juja Sub-County Police Commander Dorothy Miragusha told The Standard<\/em> that the matter has been taken up by Kiambu County DCI officers.\n<\/p>\n \u201cWe haven\u2019t arrested any suspect so far,\u201d she said, adding that Wambui\u2019s family has since been informed about the news.\n<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019ve requested for the matter to be settled out of the media spotlight,\u201d said Miragusha.\n<\/p>\n On Monday, the Juja police boss told The Standard<\/em> that preliminary investigations suggested that the woman, aged between 18 and early 20s, was strangled.\n<\/p>\n \u201cThe body had been wrapped in a nylon sack and stashed in a black suitcase. Her hands were tied at the back, while her legs were bound together using a manila rope. A nylon string suspected to have been used in her strangulation was tied around her neck,\u201d a police report filed at the Mugutha Police Station, under the OB Number 26\/17\/1\/2022, said.\n<\/p>\n \u201cShe had a deep cut injury on her left breast,\u201d said the report filed at 7:40pm on Monday, January 17.\n<\/p>\n Members of the public became curious when the suitcase remained on the road unclaimed for nearly two hours.\n<\/p>\n Juja police chief Miragusha said a message that took the form of a revenge note was written on the woman\u2019s breasts, thighs and palms.\n<\/p>\n \u201cThe message said: \u2018bwana ya mtu sumu<\/em> (dating someone\u2019s husband is akin to taking poison)\u2019,\u201d said Miragusha.\n<\/p>\n The message had been written using a blue biro pen.\n<\/p>\n Miragusha said preliminary probe indicated that the young woman was killed elsewhere and her body dumped in Kimbo.\n<\/p>\n \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Police estimate that the woman is in her early twenties. [File, Standard] The youthful woman who was killed, stashed in a suitcase and her body dumped near the GSU barracks\u00a0in Kimbo, Kiambu County\u00a0on Monday evening has been identified as Esther Wambui. She worked as a petrol station attendant in Juja, and lived in Ruiru. 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