Family of British woman, 44, who was ‘murdered after joining cult in Kenya during Covid lockdown’ win court bid for post-mortem
- Lutfunisa Kwandwalla, 44, from Leicester, travelled to East Africa in 2019
- Her family said she joined a cult after being stuck in Kenya amid Covid lockdown
- She turned up dead in 2020 and she was said to have died of natural causes
- Now her family have won a court battle to have her exhumed as they believe she was murdered
The family of a British woman who joined a cult in Kenya during the coronavirus pandemic have won the right to have her body undergo a post-mortem examination to prove their suspicions she was murdered.
Lutfunisa Kwandwalla, 44, from Leicester, travelled to Kenya in 2019 to visit members of her husband’s family.
But she became stuck in the East African nation when the Covid-19 pandemic swept the world due to lockdown rules and travel restrictions, and according to her family became a member of a cult.
Kwandwalla was found dead at the home of a so-called spiritual leader in Kenya’s eastern coastal city of Mombasa in 2020.
But officials claimed she had passed away from natural causes and there was no investigation into her death, nor were any arrests made.
Lutfunisa Kwandwalla, 44, from Leicester, traveled to Kenya in 2019 to visit members of her husband’s family, but turned up dead a year later in Mombasa
Now, her distraught family have won a court battle to force Kenyan authorities to exhume Kwandwalla’s corpse and perform a post-mortem to check for signs she was killed, the BBC reported.
‘The court order is a victory for justice – it was touch and go,’ Kwandwalla’s brother Imran Admani said.
‘It was an emotional moment as well as a moment of joy,’ he added.
Kwandwalla’s family claim she was killed by cult members and her burial was rushed in an attempt to conceal evidence of her murder.
Two years on from her death, nobody has been arrested and there are no investigations into the case.
But her family are hopeful that the post-mortem will reveal Kwandwalla was in fact the victim of a murderous cult leader.
‘The next stage to establish if it was foul play is to get to the body. Hopefully very soon we will get to know what happened to her,’ Admani said.
Cultism hit the headlines in Kenya in October 2019 when the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) announced it was investigating two deaths it had attributed to extreme groups.
Earlier that month, a catholic priest was found buried in shallow grave in Embu County, eastern Kenya, while materials belonging to a secret society cult were recovered from the suspected killer’s house, according to The East African.
Police also linked the death of the son of prominent University of Nairobi lecturer Hannah Khahugani Inyama to cultism.
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