British soldier accused of murdering Kenyan woman Agnes Wanjiru named | UK news
In 2012, he was called the British military Robert James Purkiss, accused of killing Kenyan Aggnes Wanjiru.
Purkiss, 38, was elected in the court documents at the Nairobi Supreme Court this week, where he gave an order to arrest a court.
The Supreme Court judge Alexander Mutmet issued an arrest order in Kenya on Tuesday, and the prosecution said the court was accused of a single murder of Purkiss.
The court said that the Kenya government would ask Purkiss to be returned to the charges.
Originally from Greater Manchester, Purkiss worked as a doctor with the Infantry Regiment, Lancaster Duke Regiment, including Afghanistan tours, including Afghanistan tours.
Wanjiru, a 21 -year -old hairdresser and a baby daughter’s mother was killed in 2012. A night later, he disappeared and his body was justified by a hotel where he was last seen with his last British soldiers.
Wanjiru’s death has already been the focus of a few investigations and criminal investigations, but the last accusations have been defined for the first time in a suspect case.
The accusation comes after a new police investigation led by the detectives in Kenya and protecting the jurisdiction in the case. In 2021, he followed an investigation by the Sunday Times newspaper, where the existing and former soldier in the regiment came to the fore to name a suspect.
Following the court hearing on Tuesday, Purkiss’s name wandered in the Kenya media.
“We lived with the pain of Agnes’s death,” his family said in a statement at the beginning of this week. “A UK citizen is an important moment and incredibly welcome for us.”
No time schedule has been determined for any return hearing or future trial. A government spokesman did not confirm whether an official refund request was received by the Minister of the Interior.
A British government spokesman, “Our thoughts stay with the Aggnes Wanjiru family and we are definitely determined to help them secure justice,” he said.
“Kenya Public Prosecutor’s Office Director, a British citizen should be tried in 2012 for the murder of Mrs. Wanjiru. This is subject to the ongoing legal procedures and we will not make any more comments at this stage.”
The case was later listed on 21 October to mention in the court in Kenya.
