Kenya seeks arrest of former British soldier over alleged murder of Agnes Wanjiru | British army
In 2012, an order was issued for the arrest of an British citizen who was suspected of the murder of Aggnes Wanjiru, who was found dead for a hotel near an army base.
The Supreme Court judge Alexander Mutmetiti, on Tuesday, issued an arrest order in Kenya and said that the prosecution was accused of a suspect’s murder of the murder and that he was looking for a arrest order to facilitate his return to Kenya.
The prosecutor’s office said that the UK -based witnesses would be called to testify in a future case. “Witnesses are in the United Kingdom, but we will evacuate them,” the court said.
The Office of the Public Prosecutor’s Office reported to the court that the defendant was accused of murder.
The 21 -year -old Wanjiru was last seen on March 31, 2012 at the British soldiers’ company at Lion’s Court Hotel in his hometown Nanyuki.
That night, until the body is filled into a septic tank at the hotel months, his friends and his family are looking for him.
Wanjiru, who worked as a hairdresser and sometimes sells sex for extra money, had only a five -month -old daughter Stacey when he disappeared.
It is understood that Kenya officials will start returning in order to face charges in Kenya.
If it is returned, it is believed that it will be returned to another country for the first time to be tried for the murder of a civilian.
So far, Wanjiru’s death has been the focus of two investigations and several criminal investigations.
Lion’s Court Hotel’s bar was a popular place for British soldiers in Kenya (Batuk), the British army educational unit in Nanyuki, about 125 miles north of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya.
The investigation saw that Wanjiru had left the bar with one or more British soldiers.
A suspect was named after Sunday Times in 2021 by several soldiers who were affiliated to the Duke of Lancaster after an investigation into the murder.
Since the newspaper defined a suspicious killer, it is understood that Kenya detectives flew to England several times to question the soldiers and former soldiers in Nanyuki at the moment of murder.
Earlier this year, defense secretary John Healey met with Wanjiru’s family in Kenya and promised Britain’s “full support için for the investigation.
“Today, meeting the Agnes Wanjiru family was deeply humble, Healey said Healey in April. “In the last 13 years since his death, they showed such a force in their long struggles for justice.
Previously, as the Shadow Defense Secretary, Healey called on the Conservative Government at that time to do more to solve the case.
“Agnes’s death had a deep and destructive effect on our family,” his relatives said in a statement earlier. “Not only the shock of losing Agnes at such a young age, but also the terrible conditions of his body and trying to seek justice and accountability for the death of our family.”
No time schedule has been determined for any return hearing or future trial. The case was later listed on 21 October to mention in the court in Kenya.
