Detectives are investigating the death of BBC journalist Kate Mitchelle whose body modified into found at her Nairobi hotel room on Friday.
Preliminary investigations dispute that the journalist would possibly well well were strangled to death by a man she had been with earlier on the hotel.
The 2, whose relationship is unknown, are reported to were embroiled in an argument that became an altercation.
Mitchelle is reported to obtain pressed the fright bell when the altercation worsened. She modified into strangled sooner than she would possibly well maybe discover any assist.
In step with Nairobi Regional Police Commander Benjamin Nthumbi, Mitchelle’s hotel room’s door modified into locked from internal when detectives arrived.
They found her needless body within the course of the room and seen some broken window chippings on the bottom.
“Upon checking by plot of the window, the detectives saw a man’s body lying on the bottom. He modified into later identified as the man Mitchelle had been considered with earlier,” Mr Nthumbi acknowledged.
“The person had jumped off the eighth ground of the hotel by plot of the room’s window,” acknowledged Mr Nthumbi.
The journalist, who is reported to obtain appropriate returned to the country, modified into linked to BBC Media Trudge’s dwelling of job in Ethiopia.
The dwelling of job situated in Addis Ababa specializes in telling sexy stories on unsafe and unlawful migration, health and media construction.
An interior communication to BBC workers in Nairobi says the instances surrounding her death are unclear.
“We’re working with the UK High commission and the police in Nairobi… there isn’t this kind of thing as a indication that her death is hooked as a lot as her work or to the BBC,” the memo to workers stated.
In the past Mitchelle has worked in Zambia, South Sudan and most no longer too long ago in Ethiopia.
