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<\/div>Esther Wambui, 18, was found murdered on Monday, January 17, 2022.<\/strong> [Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Esther Wambui, whose body was found in a suitcase abandoned at Kimbo in Kiambu County, died of strangulation, a postmortem conducted at the City Mortuary on Friday, January 20 shows.\n<\/p>\n The autopsy also indicated that Wambui, 18, was hit in the head with a blunt object. <\/p>\n There was speculation that she might have been raped before being killed. Vaginal swabs were taken for further analysis to establish whether she was sexually abused,\n<\/p>\n Wambui\u2019s husband, Joseph Ngige, and her father, Samuel Mbugua, were present during the autopsy.<\/p>\n The teenager\u2019s body was, on Monday evening, January 17, found stashed naked in a suitcase, which had been abandoned on the roadside. She had a deep cut in her left breast.\n<\/p>\n The words bwana ya mtu sumu<\/em> had been written on her palms, thighs and breast.\n<\/p>\n Her spouse, Ngige, told police that he escorted Wambui to work at 5am on Monday, and that his subsequent calls to her that day went unanswered. He would, a day later \u2013 on Tuesday, January 18 \u2013 file a missing person\u2019s report at Juja Police Station. <\/p>\n Wambui worked as a waitress at a hotel in Ruiru, where she received a daily pay of Sh300.\n<\/p>\n The teenager and her partner were living at Prisons area in Ruiru.\n<\/p>\n Ngige, 23, works at a mattress-production company in Kiambu County.\n<\/p>\n Police are yet to arrest any suspect in connection with Wambui\u2019s murder.\n<\/p>\n Wambui and her spouse met in Nakuru County, where they both hail from. They had been married for eight months. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Esther Wambui, 18, was found murdered on Monday, January 17, 2022. [Standard] Esther Wambui, whose body was found in a suitcase abandoned at Kimbo in Kiambu County, died of strangulation, a postmortem conducted at the City Mortuary on Friday, January 20 shows. The autopsy also indicated that Wambui, 18, was hit in the head with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}