
“Kenya Court: British Tycoon’s Body Too Decomposed to Reveal Cause of Death
A Kenyan magistrate has ruled that the cause of death of British tycoon Harry Roy Veevers—whose exhumed body has remained in a Mombasa morgue for 11 years—cannot be determined. Magistrate David Odhiambo ordered the inquest closed, stating that the body’s advanced decomposition at the time of exhumation—months after burial—made it impossible to establish how Veevers died. “Nobody can be called to answer any charge,” he said. Veevers died on Valentine’s Day 2013 in the coastal city of Mombasa. He was buried under Islamic rites without a post-mortem examination, which sparked a prolonged legal battle. His two sons from a previous marriage, Richard and Philip Veevers, living in the UK,