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Woman linked to JKIA land was abducted, inquest told

Vehicles entering the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

An inquest into the death of an 89-year-old woman at the centre of a controversy involving the JKIA land has been told how she was abducted from her home and kept in a rented house where she was tortured, taken to a mental hospital and left to die at KNH.

Witnesses appearing before chief magistrate HM Nyaga at Makandara Law Courts testified that Beatrice Syokau Kathumba was moved by a court processor server and some other people from her home near Transami, near Mombasa Road, and kept under guard in a rented apartment in Imara Daima Estate.

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