Post mortem reveals how Eileen Cherotich died
The late Eileen Cherotich was a student at RVIST in Nakuru.
When Eileen Cherotich’s cousin, Gideon Koech went to the Nakuru County Funeral Home to view his cousin's body he was shocked.
"She had bruises all over her back and legs. Also, there was a crack on her skull; it looked like she must have been in a lot of pain at the point of her death," he says.
In the past few days, there have been several theories surrounding the death of Eileen Cherotich.
In efforts to try and get to the truth, we embarked on a quest to try and establish the cause of death.
According to Government Pathologist Dr. Titus Ngulungu of Nakuru County Referral and Teaching Hospital, the main cause of death was a medulla injury and a skull fracture at the fore head.
Titus Ngulungu is a government pathologist based in Nakuru .
"This simply means that she suffered a severe head injury as she landed on her forehead. The impact was very severe," he says.
Dr Ngulungu adds that this is consistent with the reports of the deceased having fallen from the car and her head absorbing most of the force upon impact with the surface.
"She did not have injuries on her palm areas indicating lack of reflexes. Having injuries on your palm areas often indicates that she might have tried to break the fall but this was not the case. Therefore, we deduced the deceased must have been unconscious hence falling in the manner that she did," he reveals.
The pathologist says that there were other secondary injuries such as bruises on the lungs which are consistent with rolling on the ground severally.
"On her right hip area, there was a puncture but it does not go inwards so she landed on a blunt object. This is not consistent with a stab wound. In addition to this, there were graze injuries on her back and her scalp was detached. Lastly, the deceased was in her menstrual cycle because there was a tampon in her vaginal cavity," he concludes.
Eileen Cherotich died on Sunday morning (July 14th) while in the company of three other individuals Joseph, Brenda and Eric, two of whom are in police custody, while Eric who was her boyfriend fled after the incident.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) Kaptembwa Charles Kamau says investigations are still ongoing.