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Hellen Wendy’s Boyfriend Recalls Their Last Conversation Before She Went Swimming Meeting Her Tragic End

SK 2 years ago 2 min read

In their final minutes together, Hellen “Wendy” Nyabuto’s lover spoke up. Nyabuto was a Kenyan nurse who drowned in Canada while live-streaming her swimming lesson on Facebook.

Alphonce Nyamwaya claimed to have had a brief video contact with Wendy right before she dove into the Toronto private pool, where she would eventually perish.

“I was preparing myself for the afternoon shift when she gave me a video call. She told me she was headed to the swimming pool to relax after completing her morning shift. She inquired whether I had eaten before we said goodbye to each other,” Nyamwaya told Nation.
In Toronto, Wendy was employed as a nurse. She appears to be having a good time as she swims from one side of the pool to the other in the Thursday video, which has since gone viral.

After every circuit, the 24-year-old takes a break to respond to comments and address questions from the live chat.

She briefly makes more excursions from one side of the pool to the other in the video, but around 10 minutes and 30 seconds in, it appears that she may have wandered into the deep end and is now trying to remain afloat.

The deceased made an attempt to run for the pool’s edge, but she slowly started to sunk. Before her calls for aid became silent, she can be heard gasping for oxygen.

After completing her oncology nursing degree at Pwani University, Ms. Nyabuto—whom her family characterized as “smart but calm”—graduated from Toronto Metropolitan University.

She traveled to Canada in 2019 after winning a 10-year study visa through a Green Card lottery, her father, John Nyabuto, has now revealed. She was balancing education and a part-time nursing job in the North American nation.

“I was happy she had gone to Canada and could assist me in educating her other siblings,” her father said in an interview run by The Standard on Sunday, “She was at least willing to assist her family. God had answered my prayers. She was working part-time to pay her school fees.”

Mr. Nyabuto further intimated that he learned of her daughter’s death through a message from her friend in Canada. He later got a call from Canada informing him that his Hellen had been taken ill and rushed to the hospital.

“Moments later I saw a video clip of my daughter swimming. She was happy. Her colleague at work called and gave the phone to another person who informed me that my daughter had died in a swimming pool not far from where she was working,” he told the publication.

Ms. Nyabuto’s body has since been retrieved and ferried to a Toronto mortuary pending postmortem.