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On Saturday, Judy Wanjiku (pictured) boarded a matatu in Ruiru. Her destination was Mwea, about 76 kilometres away. Her fiancé was eagerly waiting for her, but as fate would have it, she would only make it to Juja.
Hers was a routine that her brother Isaac Muthua and neighbours were familiar with.
On weekends, whenever the 26-year-old Wanjiku, who was a banker, took a break from work, she would throw a few clothes in a bag and make the two-hour trip to Mwea to spend the weekend with her boyfriend.
Their long-distance relationship worked on this principle, but on this last Saturday, Wanjiku set off on a journey that would be perilous, and in Mwea, her fiancé would wait impatiently for a lover he would never see alive.