How was Joan Root, the subject of the book “Wildflower”, killed?
At her memorial service last year on the shore of Lake Naivasha in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley, Joan Root’s former husband did his best to try to sum up the contribution she had made to the series of remarkable, ground-breaking wildlife documentaries the couple had made together years earlier. “Many of you know what a wonderful helper Joan was to me, but she was much more than that,” Alan Root told the assembled group of conservationists, wildlife experts and film-makers sitting outside on chairs overlooking the lake. “She was really the producer of all the films we did together Joan was my right arm. She made it all possible. And if we flew high and far together in those years, it was because of her.” At that point Mr Root, divorced from his former wife a full 25 years before, found himself unable to go on and dissolved into tears. His tribute would have to wait. Yesterday it was announced that another tribute to Root – murdered in her lakeshore farmhouse in January 2006 – was under way
