New Information Regarding the Nairobi Murder of BBC Employee Disclosed by a UK Coroner

According to a new coroner’s report published in the UK on Tuesday, February 25, a hotel intruder brutally murdered a BBC employee. This coincides with the British family’s alleged unwillingness to conclude investigations with Kenyan authorities.

According to information presented before a Newcastle Coroner’s Court, Kate Mitchell, 42, was killed three years ago by a guy who then dropped or jumped to his death from eight stories.

After Mitchell’s body was returned to the UK, a postmortem revealed that she passed away from a head injury and pressure on her neck.

At BBC Media Action, an organization that supports democratic reporting, Mitchell served as a project manager.

Following an emergency evacuation due to an uptick in violence in Ethiopia at the time, Mitchell was in Nairobi from Addis Ababa when she was murdered in November 2021.

Mitchell was discovered in her eighth-floor room that fateful night after an assailant had broken in and assaulted her. Eight storeys lower, the intruder would be discovered dead. The circumstances surrounding the intruder’s death are still unknown.

That’s all the UK has learned about the murder that happened three years ago, the coroner, Karin Welsh, told the court.

There are still a lot of unanswered issues, and the family, lead by the brother Paul Mitchell, is pressuring the Kenyan police to provide more information.

To learn more about the circumstances surrounding her murder, the family hired a lawyer to advocate for an inquest in Nairobi.

The fact that the BBC employee’s laptop and other personal belongings have not yet been given back to the family is one of the unresolved issues.

We don’t have answers regarding Kate’s death, he said, “whatever it is that the Kenyan police are reluctant to have brought to light the collateral damage.”