No closure: Our son is still waiting for his father, says slain lawyer’s widow

Hannah Wanjiku Gitwiria,Widow of the late lawyer Willie Kimani Kinuthia, during an interview at the Standard's offices in Nairobi.[Elvis Ogina.Standard] .

For the past two years, six-year-old Castrol Kinuthia routinely places his father’s sandals by the door in the evening, sits back on a couch and waits to see him walk in.

His mother Hannah Wanjiku is at pains to explain death to the six-year-old. This is further complicated by the intricacies of how Castrol’s father, human rights lawyer Willy Kimani, went missing only for his mutilated body to be found in a river.