July 21, 1997. Copyright, 1997, Graphic News. All rights reserved

JULIEÕS LAST DAYS 

After a nine-year search for his daughterÕs killers, John Ward is 
convinced Kenyan police have found the men who murdered Ôsafari 
girlÕ Julie Ward.
	ÔI am totally convinced that these two men killed my daughter,Õ 
Ward, a Suffolk hotelier says after the arrest of a police 
officer and a ranger.
Ward, who has spent more than £500,000 and made over 70 trips to 
Kenya campaigning for his daughterÕs death to be properly 
investigated, said both will be named in a police report which 
will recommend that they are charged with her murder. Both deny 
killing Julie Ward, 28, in the Masai Mara game reserve where she 
had been studying wildlife.
Julie WardÕs mutilated remains were found in a remote corner of 
the Masai Mara game reserve, 200 kms (125 miles) south of the 
capital Nairobi in September 1988.
Kenyan police said originally that she had been killed by wild 
animals, but her father's dogged campaign finally led to a fresh 
series of investigations in which a pathologist in England proved 
that her body had been dismembered with a machete and doused in 
petrol.
Two game rangers were charged with the murder but acquitted in 
1992 by a Kenyan high court judge.
Following the latest investigation Ward believes that Julie was 
sexually assaulted or raped by the police officer and ranger at 
the Sand River camp. Julie either died during the attack or was 
murdered afterwards.
The two suspected killers, helped by another ranger, then devised 
an elaborate plan to dispose of her body and belongings by 
driving her Suzuki jeep over the border to make it look as if she 
had been attacked by Tanzanian bandits.
Their plans went wrong when the jeep got stuck in a gully. Ward 
believes that the killers wrote SOS in mud on the roof and 
dismembered her body to make it look as if she had been killed by 
animals.
Their critical mistake Ð to use petrol in an attempt to burn her 
remains Ð almost certainly meant that animals would not eat them, 
thus preserving evidence of the crime. 
Ward says: ÔI now want the men who murdered my daughter tried and 
convicted. That is what it has all been about for nine years, 
nothing more, nothing less.Õ

/ENDS

Sources: Reuters, The Animals Are Innocent by John Ward