New Details Emerge From BBC Employee’s Murder In Nairobi
A BBC staffer was brutally murdered by a hotel invader, according to a new coroner report released in the United Kingdom on Tuesday, February 25.
This comes as the British family expresses unwillingness to cooperate with Kenyan police.
A Newcastle Coroner’s Court heard that Kate Mitchell, 42, was murdered by a man who then leaped or plummeted to his death from eight floors three years ago.
Mitchell died of a head injury and neck pressure, according to an autopsy conducted after her body was repatriated to the United Kingdom.
Justice Still Elusive for Kate Mitchell ⚖️
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Three years on and still no proper answers about the tragic death of Kate Mitchell in Nairobi. A coroner's ruling of unlawful killing raises more questions than it answers, especially when the Kenyan authorities seem to be doing their…
Mitchell worked as a project manager for BBC Media Action, which supports democratic reporting.
Mitchell was in Nairobi from Addis Ababa when she was murdered in November 2021, following an emergency evacuation due to an intensification of tensions in Ethiopia at the time.
Mitchell was discovered in her eighth-floor apartment after an intruder broke in and attacked her. The intruder would be discovered eight stories below, dead. The circumstances surrounding the intruder’s death are unclear.
The coroner, Karin Welsh, told the court that this is all the UK has learned about the murder that occurred three years ago.
“That man either fell or jumped from the eighth-floor bedroom window, and he also was found deceased,” Welsh told the court.
He found that the death was wrongfully caused.
Despite the disclosure of the cause of death, many concerns remain, and the family, led by the brother, Paul Mitchell, is pressuring Kenyan police to release more.
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The family instructed a lawyer to seek an inquiry in Nairobi, which could shed more light on the circumstances surrounding her murder.
“The Kenyan police have just stonewalled any inquiries,” Mitchell told reporters after the hearing. Insisting, “They have refused to do anything about it.”
One of the outstanding difficulties is the handover of the BBC employee’s laptop and other personal belongings to his family.
He added, “Whatever it is that the Kenyan police are reluctant to have brought to light the collateral damage is that we don’t have answers about Kate’s death.”
New Details Emerge From BBC Employee’s Murder In Nairobi
