Tuesday, September 13, 2011

British publisher was murdered and his wife kidnapped in Kenya









A gang who targeted a British couple hours after they began a luxury holiday in Kenya may have been tipped off by a hotel worker, it emerged today.
Kenyan police are reportedly holding a local man in Lamu, 30 miles from the murder scene, in connection with the kidnapping at Kiwayu Safari Village.
District Commissioner Stephen Ikua has said he is suspected of helping coordinate the attack on David and Judith Tebbutt.
David, 58, was killed with a single gunshot to his chest as his traumatised wife, 56, looked on. She was abducted and is still missing.
There is speculation information about the British couple's arrival at the luxury holiday spot was leaked - either on purpose or by accident.

A security source, said 'There are not too many comings and goings at this hotel and everyone in the local area knows when a plane lands at the airstrip.
'It is possible a local, or a member of the hotel staff, deliberately or accidentally let slip when the British couple arrived.'
Pictures of the hut where the couple were staying shows a remote building on an idyllic beach. Two sun loungers sit under the palm trees.
UK Special Forces are now joining the hunt for Mrs Tebbutt amid fears she has been taken by Al Qaeda and after an air, sea and land search yesterday drew a blank.
British Special Forces involved in tracking down Al Qaeda-linked groups and Somali pirates operating in the Indian Ocean are now said to be ‘gathering intelligence’ on possible kidnappers.

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