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- WORLD, Page 61World NotesKENYAA Private Quest For Justice
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- It took more than two years of private investigation and
- $396,000 of his personal fortune. But last week when two
- rangers from Masai Mara National Park were charged with the
- murder of his daughter Julie, John Ward made a major
- breakthrough in his quest for justice. The disappearance of the
- 28-year-old woman in the game park in September 1988 became a
- cause celebre in the British press. After her mutilated and
- burned remains were found by Ward, who was accompanied by park
- rangers, Kenyan authorities said she had been eaten by wild
- animals. But Ward, the owner of a hotel chain, refused to
- accept the official verdict and uncovered evidence that his
- daughter had been hacked to death. He then went on to conduct
- his own probe to find the killers.
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- Accused are Jonah Tajeu Magiroi, 28, and Peter Metui
- Kipeen, 26, who police now believe took Julie Ward into their
- rangers' camp after her Suzuki four-wheel-drive vehicle broke
- down in the park. Investigators think that radio trouble kept
- the men from calling for assistance and that she stayed with
- them for about a week on friendly terms before an altercation
- led to her murder. John Ward is expected to be a witness at the
- trial.
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