Love triangle? Agony as waitress is killed, body dumped in hotel’s borehole

 Carol Njeri was working as a waitress at Sportsman's Arms Hotel in Nanyuki

A family of a waitress in Nanyuki is in agony after the body of their daughter was found dead and her body dumped inside a well at Sportsman’s Arms Hotel.

According to the father of the waitress, Paul Kariuki, his daughter, Carol Nduta, 24, disappeared last Thursday only to be found dead at the three-star hotel where she had worked for four years.

Kariuki told The Standard that the hotel management confirmed Nduta’s disappearance, but by last Friday, her whereabouts had not been established.

“I sought help from the DCI (Directorate of Criminal Investigations) to help us look for my daughter and on Saturday she was found dead in the hotel’s well with a deep cut on her belly,” he said.

“She was cut from one side of the belly to the other and she was still in her uniform,” said Kariuki.

A source at the hotel familiar with the investigation said they were prompted to look for Nduta after her supervisor noticed that she was not at the club.

“The chief security officer mobilised a team of staff members to look for her. They did not succeed until Saturday when her body was found,” said the source.

Love triangle

Nduta is believed to be a victim of a love triangle. She and another female worker are said to have been having an affair with a man who also works at the same hotel.

Her rival had warned her to keep off “her man”.

A friend of the deceased, who spoke to The Standard on condition of anonymity, confirmed that Nduta began a relation with the man during her internship at the hotel in 2013.

“Nduta had told me that a colleague had threatened to kill her. She had also threatened her in her house in Likii,” the source added.

According to the father, the hotel showed the family CCTV footage showing Nduta’s movements before she disappeared.

The footage shows that Nduta left the hotel and walked out through the club’s backdoor.

“From there, no one knows where she went or how she was killed and dumped into the well because that was the last time she was seen alive,” said the father.

A spot check by The Standard shows there is a CCTV camera at the door through which Nduta is said to have exited and the well is about 20m away.

The family wondered how Nduta was killed and dumped in the well but no one noticed or heard any screams.

“We have been here from Friday but none has spoken to us about the progress,” said Kariuki

When dialled, Nduta’s phone was ringing but no one was answering it. It was later traced to a bus terminus in Nanyuki town.

Efforts to speak to the hotel’s director were futile as our calls went unanswered.