Miss Africa Contestant Found Stabbed To Death In Front Of Her Daughter

A young model was found stabbed to death with her three-year old-daughter ‘crying next to her in a pool of blood’.

The body of Linah Keza, 29, understood to have taken part in Miss Africa 2010, was found at a flat in King Edward Road, Leyton, early yesterday morning.

Her daughter Holly was discovered crying beside her body as the attacker rushed out of her home.

Miss Keza’s former boyfriend, named locally as club promoter David Kikawa, 38, was later arrested on suspicion of murder after handing himself in to police and remains in custody.
  
One neighbour described how he was confronted by the killer when he broke down the front door of the Rwanda-born model’s flat.

He said: ‘I was outside and I heard some shouting and screaming and I ran to the door. A woman was saying,“Kick the door in”, so I did and came face to face with  the guy.
‘I could see the woman, there was lots of blood and she was lying half in the bedroom and half out. The little girl was next to her.

‘I asked the man what he was doing and told him if he wanted to fight someone, he should fight me.
He went as if to fight me but he just ran out of the building. I tried to help the woman but there was no pulse. The little girl was just standing there, it looked like she was in shock.’

London Ambulance Service paramedics accompanied police to the address just before 4.30am, but Linah, a Rwandan national living in London, was pronounced dead at the scene.
It is understood that her daughter was at the address at the time of the attack, according to a family friend.

Herbert Muhire said: ‘[Her] daughter is being taken care of and treated for trauma and other consequences as she was found crying next to the mother who was in a pool of blood.

‘Family and friends have been briefed how she was killed and died a gruesome death.

‘Everything is being done that Linah’s body be brought and buried in respect at home in Kigali [Rwanda].’

According to police, a 38-year-old man was arrested after handing himself in at a north London police station yesterday.
A police spokesman said: ‘A murder investigation has been launched after woman was attacked in Leyton.