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...September 1988, British tourist Julie Ward, 28, went missing during a trip to Kenya's Masai Mara game reserve. Days later her father, British businessman John Ward, came across her severed leg in the dusty grass of the Kenyan savannah, confirming his worst fears about her fate...
...case remains officially unsolved. But Ward, a self-made businessman, has been on a mission ever since to keep the investigation into Julie's murder alive. He has visited the crime scene more than 100 times, and spent nearly $4 million of his own money searching for clues. Ward has always maintained that British authorities have actively thwarted his investigations because they placed smooth relations with the Kenyan government above the search for justice. Beyond a few sympathetic newspaper profiles, however, his allegations have been largely dismissed as the obsessions of a grief-stricken father...
...report, undertaken by the Lincolnshire Police on behalf of Scotland Yard and obtained by TIME, accuses the FCO and High Commission of "inconsistency and contradictions, falsehoods and downright lies," and concludes that "it is this that has not surprisingly led to John Ward believing that there was an active conspiracy to prevent him from identifying his daughter's killers...
...physical evidence in the case suggests that after Julie Ward was hacked to death, her remains were set on fire. She was probably raped before her murder. Yet in the immediate aftermath of the crime, the Kenyan authorities refused to declare the death a murder, insisting that Julie either killed herself or was torn apart by wild animals. When Ward presented evidence to the contrary, pointing out that animals or dead women cannot start fires, a British Foreign Office official told him that his daughter was probably struck by lightning (This has also since been ruled...
...interview with the BBC, Ward suggested that the obstruction of the investigation had been motivated by the desire not to anger Kenya's then president, Daniel arap Moi, a key Cold War ally at the time. An open acknowledgment that Ward had been brutally murdered might have raised uncomfortable questions, and perhaps put a serious damper on the country's tourism industry...