An autopsy has confirmed that Multimedia University student Sylvia Kemunto was strangled and suffered multiple blunt force injuries.
Dr Johansen Oduor, the government pathologist, who led the post-mortem on Tuesday at Montezuma Monalisa funeral home in Nairobi, said the 19-year-old had clear signs of physical assault. "Upon doing the autopsy, Sylvia had multiple injuries which were caused by blunt objects, there were injuries in the head and on both up and lower limbs.
Apart from that, there was also evidence of strangulation, we saw injuries on the neck which we see on people who have been strangled," said Dr Oduor.
He said that the examination also found that there were injuries to the soft tissues beneath the skin. "We did what is called subcutaneous resection of the body, in which we look at the tissues of the skin, and we look at the tissue of the skin of the upper limb.
