Body of missing Machakos hairdresser found dumped in toilet

The body of a hairdresser who went missing two weeks ago was found dumped in a pit latrine in the Mlolongo area, Machakos County.

The body was found a few kilometres from her workstation in the area, police said.

The decomposing body of Jane Mwende Mwanzia, 29 was discovered after suspects arrested earlier on led the police to the scene.

Machakos County Police Commander Patrick Lobolia said they found the body in a pit latrine.

“We have suspects who are helping the probe. They helped us find the body,” he said.

The suspects had earlier misled the detectives to a Magongo forest in the Wote area of Makueni County.

They changed the narrative and led the police to Kiserian before revealing the actual scene where Mwende’s body was discovered in Mlolongo.

Family, friends and colleagues of Mwende have been frantically searching for her since she disappeared.

They said they had been to police stations, hospitals and even morgues without success.

The deceased is said to have received a phone call on August 25, 2023, from a person posing as a client in need of her hairdressing services at their home.

She left never to return, her colleagues said. Her phone remained switched off and she did not report to work.

She also failed to pick up her child from her Yatta home in Machakos after the August holidays.

Police suspect a love triangle as well as her involvement in the real estate business as a possible motive.

It is alleged that Mwende and another woman in Mlolongo town, have been in a dispute involving a man who has already been questioned by the police.

Police are interrogating a couple and they are looking for two more suspects in the murder.

They will be arraigned with murder.