The family of the grade 8 pupil at Joy Gardens Primary School in Umoja Estate who died after allegedly falling from seventh floor has rejected the autopsy results.
According to an autopsy conducted on the boy’s body at Mama Lucy Hospital, Wesley Njiru died of internal bleeding and fractured bones.
However, the deceased parents disputed the report stating that it was not consistent with the preliminary investigations which showed no fracture or blood at the scene.
“They are saying that there was blood on his clothes but when I saw him lying down on the floor there was no single drop of blood. They are saying that he committed suicide, fell from the seventh floor, we rule that out,” Stella Nyawira, the deceased’s mother said.
According to Simon Njiru, Wesley’s father, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) inspected the crime scene at Joy Gardens Primary and concluded that the death was not consistent with a fall from a high ground.
“When we came over there was absolutely no blood, no fracture, there was nothing you could tell apart from a bruiser on the knee and something swollen on the forehead,” he said.
Family raises foul play alarm
Dr Charles Muturi, a government pathologist based at Mama Lucy conducted the postmortem in the presence of a representative from the family and the school.
However, Nyawira alleged that the school’s lawyer, hired the pathologist without her knowledge which led to contradictory outcomes.
“This thing is not ending here we are going to seek for justice. DCI said it was not consistent, but here they are saying it is consistent. How do you fall and go into a comma. The results were compromised,” she added.
The family is also raised questions on whether the boy was defiled before the incident following initial reports that he had bruises in the rectum.
“Even the DCI told us that there are bruises at the anus, the pathologist has told us that they have taken samples for further investigations so that we can know if the boy was molested or not,” Nyawira said.
“I wasn’t consulted but we had a pathologist, we don’t know but in pathology, no one writes individual outcomes. We are having a problem, the person who is rep the school came to do pathology,” the deceased father explained.
According to the parents, the details are not adding up based on how they found their son that fateful day.
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Joy Gardens Position
Dunstan Omari maintained his clients are innocent arguing that the postmortem results showed that the minor died as a result of falling from a height.
“There were injuries, the bones were broken, the pelvic girdle was broken, the front part of the bosom had broken images, the ribcage was broken, the scapular heading to the shoulder bone were broken, the spinal cord had some injuries, there was blood all over and they have concluded unanimously that the cause of death was a fall from a high height,” Omari said.
He said the school administration will support the family over the death of the Grade 8 pupil.
“The school condones and will support the family,” he said.
“We are heading to the court in 10 minutes to ask the court to release our client having been exonerated.”
The school management informed the family that Wesley fell from the seventh floor of the school building at around 6 pm on March 8.
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Previous revelations around Wesley’s death
DCI officers visited the institution to obtain the CCTV footage and arrested four suspects among them two directors of the school.
In a statement, DCI revealed that the school’s director made a report at the Buruburu Police Station on March 8, first noting that the pupil was declared missing.
In the report, the director said Wesley was declared missing at 6.30pm when he failed show up for supper.
According to the director, the pupil’s absence led to a search throughout the school’s eight storey building.
The search, according to the report, took a twist when members of the school stumbled on the pupil’s lifeless body at a 1st floor balcony outside the Director’s office.
Police from Buruburu examined the body after visiting the scene and established no injuries on it.
They established that the injuries on the body were not consistent with a fall from a higher floor as insinuated by Joy Gardens school management.
