Lutfunisa Kwandwalla: Dead cult member to have Kenya autopsy

The household of a British pistillate who they accidental died aft joining a cult successful Kenya has won the close to exhume her body.

When Lutfunisa Kwandwalla died successful 2020 astatine the location of a spiritual person successful Mombasa, officials blamed "natural causes" and nary arrests were made.

But her household believes she was murdered and has won a tribunal bid for a post-mortem, successful the anticipation of proving it.

"The tribunal bid is simply a triumph for justness - it was interaction and go," her member Imran Admani told the BBC.

"It was an affectional infinitesimal arsenic good arsenic a infinitesimal of joy."

Ms Kwandwalla, 44, was from Leicester successful the UK and arrived successful Kenya arsenic a tourer successful August 2019 to sojourn members of her husband's family, her member says.

She was owed to instrumentality to the UK respective months later, but a coronavirus lockdown and question restrictions prevented her from leaving Kenya.

During that clip she joined a arguable cult successful the coastal metropolis of Mombasa, according to her family.

They allege she was killed and her assemblage buried rapidly to fell evidence.

Following past week's ruling astatine a tribunal successful Mombasa, the Kenyan authorities indispensable present exhume Ms Kwandwalla's assemblage and behaviour a post-mortem to corroborate the origin of her death.

Nobody has been arrested successful transportation to the decease and constabulary records amusement that determination are presently nary progressive investigations.

But Ms Kwandwalla's household told the BBC that the autopsy was the archetypal measurement successful bringing them a consciousness of closure.

"The adjacent signifier to found if it was foul play is to get to the body. Hopefully precise soon we volition get to cognize what happened to her," helium said.