A CCTV footage has revealed the final moments that an Indian Businessman spent with his wife moments before his gruesome murder on Valentines Day.
According to the CCTV Footage, Jayesh Kumar Kanji, the Indian Businessman was walking along Kodi Road in Nairobi West in the company of his wife and child on Wednesday morning, February 14.
As the family headed towards the estate’s main gate while the businessman diverted to meet a friend who was driving a white Toyota Prado.
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Moments later, Kanji was picked up by his friend at a local petrol station and the two proceeded to Makueni County to conduct land transactions in the area.
According to police reports, three hitmen ambushed Kanji and his friend shortly after arriving at a forest conservancy at Kilili at around 11 am where they had gone to conduct the land checks.
The businessman was reportedly hit with a blunt object at the back of his head before the alleged hitmen removed his clothes and poured acid on his body in what is suspected as trying to conceal evidence of the gruesome murder
Guards manning the conservancy reported the matter after they found the body in a deteriorated state. Police officers were then dispatched to the scene where they processed the body and ferried it to a morgue pending a postmortem.
Among the items recovered at the crime scene as exhibits were broken glasses and an earring, believed to belong to the deceased. Police also picked up bones, a checked shirt with blood stains, a shoe and a metal rod from the area suspected to be the murder weapon.
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A motorbike, suspected to have been the suspects’ getaway vehicle, was found a few metres from the scene. Following investigations, Kanji’s friend and three other suspects were arrested in connection with the murder.
However, it’s not clear the motive behind the murder with police still conducting investigations to determine what led to the incident.