Why the body of a British tycoon has been in a Kenyan mortuary for 11 years

This week, a Kenya magistrate judge, a British King of the British property, after spending the body in a morgue for 11 years, finally expressed the hope that he will “find rest in eternal peace”.

However, this week’s ten -year investigation into the death of Harry Roy Versers in 2013 still leaves many questions unanswered.

He poisoned the murder charges, uninterrupted legal proceedings, almost a year later, the removal of a body, and ultimately divided four siblings – two sons of his first marriage and two girls of the second.

At a hearing, sisters, Hellen and Alexandra were condemned by the peace judge for saying that a witness threatened and threatened to spend time in a cell.

In another, Hellen Versers appeared from the court with a message he wrote to the courtyard: “My father was not killed.”

Peace judge David Odhiambo, despite a long investigation into the death of the 64 -year -old rich, found the cause of death could not be determined ” [the body’s] Decomposition “after spending underground for a long time.

A unsatisfactory ending that can lead to more disputes. For both sides, lawyers told the BBC that they were thinking about their next steps.

He continued: “When you have a divided family, the Court, while both sides have been fighting since 2013, how does the remains should be released to the family?” Francis Kinyua, who represented his sons Richard and Philip, said.

From the beginning of the detailed 95 -page decision, the Magistrates’ Judge accepted the deeply established fight between family members.

“The death of a loved one brings those who have often survived by inevitable mourning,” he wrote, “death -related emotions can also break down those who survive.”

This was definitely the second situation.

According to Odhiambo, “His grave smashed the family and shortly after marking the beginning of a legal drama.”

On one side of the case, there were sons, on the other side, Mr. Azra Parvin, the second wife of Mr. andvers, with his daughters.

The children lived in the UK, their father and Mrs. Parvin religion, who have been together for more than 30 years, lived on the shores of Kenya.

The Family Case began at his home in Mombasa, where he had settled for a long time after his death in Valentine’s Day 2013 and had a large portfolio. The children then went to Kenya.

The drama started as soon as they arrived.

It was Saturday, February 16, the day before the grave.

Richard Versers’ Court’s testimony, Mrs. Parvin was agitated when questioned about those who died. His brother Philip also told the court that he initially rejected his father’s request to see his body.

Ms. Parvin Religion, said she died of a heart attack.

The next day, when they finally saw their father, Richard said that according to the summary of the magistrate, he realized that he was “redness on his face and the lips were purple and pink.”

Brothers, MS Parvin religion and daughters of Philip’s reactions from the body to the reactions of the tensions, including the demands of deleting them was seen.

In the decision of the magistrate’s judgment, Alexandra Versers said, “His father did not see any traces on his body … And he said that the body only saw his face since he was wrapped in a cloth … But Richard and Philip refused to give them and did not understand why they didn’t want to share photos.”

Mr. Versers soon was buried after death or without police participation.

The court decision, MS Parvin Din’s “the deceased person should be buried after death and should not consult anyone,” he said. In addition, the police did not inform about death, he said he was not aware of the need to report it.

According to the tradition, the Islamic tomb, which was made quickly, aroused more suspicion than his sons, who said that their fathers were not Muslims and were buried under a false name.

According to the court documents, Richard Vevers questioned why their father was buried as a Muslim, but he was told that he was a Christian and that people would dig him and steal gold from his body if he was buried in an open cemetery. “

Ms. Parvin Religion, Mr. Versers said that the transformed into Islam.

The brothers also accused Ms. Parvin of poisoning their father and their daughters of poisoning their father, so that they can inherit the millions of dollars they strongly rejected. Another complication is that it does not look like a testament.

The sons, who were not convinced by the conditions surrounding their death, filed an application for an official investigation due to the removal of their father’s body and death.

A court was ordered on 28 April 2013. However, the organ was not dug until 31 January 2014 after more than nine months.

The lawyer, who represented the sons, blamed the delay on the opposite side and refers to the repeated “frustrations” that stopped the process.

When Exhumation took place, the body was significantly decomposed.

In the last decision this weekend, the magistrate’s judge said it was very difficult to say what caused his death.

“The cause of the death of those who died is unknown, and therefore no one can respond to any accusation,” he said.

Over the years, the case passed away from many magistrates and judges who tried to knit the hazard of unanswered questions and delays to find the difficult truth.

Mullah Judge Mr. Odhiambo said that when he first started, he had just started his legal practice and that he had read in the newspapers, and had no idea that I would preside the case almost ten years later. “

In January last year, he approached the end of the investigation – after years of hearings, a magistrate judge decided that his death was not suspicious.

However, his sons successfully challenged the decision in the High Court successfully reopened. He referred to irregular procedures and allowed them to offer new evidence by sending the case back to a Magistrate Criminal Court.

Mr. Odhiambo emphasized other issues that disturb the “curved case”, including contradictory judicial reports presented by different pathologists.

A pathologist followed Cyhalothrin, a very toxic substance “, both in the residues of the body and in the soil where his body was removed.

However, the Magistrates said that this evidence was questioned because he reached England four months after Exhumating, for example, because they were not in the containers they were initially packaged. The two other pathologists in the case could not find traces of toxic substances in their samples.

“Experts showed us that there may be different comments about a topic. [such] You wonder what the person who is not a profession will believe, Mr. Odhiambo said.

He said that many things happened shortly after Mr. andSevers’ death, but it was not possible to determine whether the “commission and negligence actions” by different parties in the case were dependent on the cause of death.

The authority suggested that parties should deal with the issue differently.

Mr Versers’a first participated in the doctor, Ms. Parvin Dine’nin death to the authorities and should advise the post -death insistence, he said.

Dr. Salim Omar’s failure to do so, he observed that he contributed to the suspicions surrounding the conditions of death. Since then, the doctor has received a disciplinary penalty from the medical regulatory organ to address the issue.

As for Ms Parvin, the Judge of Magistrates said that nothing did or did not do was sufficient to find responsible for the death of Mr. andvers.

And, despite the certainty of the decision, the result is an organ that has been in the morgue for more than 11 years, and has been suspended to the legal uncertainty captured among the brothers who have irreconcilable requests.

It is not a willingness that both sides will make willingly.

The sons asked for their father that their father was a British citizen and that he should be buried in England, his second wife and daughters to be revived in Kenya.

The court admitted that Mr. Versers’ last resting place was “annoying” due to the lack of official legislative provisions to guide the grave disputes in Kenya.

It was also a “difficult” decision, because Mr. Versers did not attribute to a certain tradition, and no will was presented to show what he wished to “come out of the world in a certain way”.

Nor there was no evidence that he had a sour relationship with close family members to exclude anyone from claiming his body.

Magistrates’ judge, who would not want to intervene in the organ, but they called them to look for legal corrections from another forum, he said. He also noted that the dispute on inheritance is still waiting in another court.

Mr. andSevers’s “Eternal Peace” for a long time will not end soon.