British Senior Citizen Beheaded in Kenya

Daily Mail
December 15, 2013

Stock photo of Kenya.
A street scene from Kenya.

A British man was found with his head cut off in his Kenyan apartment on Friday.

The man, named locally as Peter Ironside and believed to be in his seventies, had lain for two weeks in a bathroom in the Bamburi area of port city of Mombasa. He had suffered multiple wounds from a machete.

A woman in her early thirties – reported to be his girlfriend – has been arrested on suspicion of murder. The Sun reported he had moved to Kenya several years ago to live with her.

Police discovered the body after neighbours became worried that he had not been seen at the apartment, situated in the popular tourist area.

One said there they heard shouts coming from the property before the man’s disappearance. Another said: He was killed in a very dehumanising manner.’

A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: ‘We are aware of the death of British National on Saturday 30 November in Mombasa, Kenya.  We are providing consular assistance to the family at this difficult time.’

Kenyan police said they had arrested one suspect.

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