Former UK Serviceman Charged of Murdering Kenyan Woman Appears in Courtroom

An individual has been presented in court as deportation processes began in the case of Agnes Wanjiru, a Kenyan national, a female from Kenya who was killed near a British forces camp in 2012.

The accused Robert Purkiss, 38, who is hailing from Greater Manchester, was presented at the Westminster court on the last Friday, and stated to the court he planned to fight the extradition request. It is understood that he was detained on the evening of Thursday.

An arrest warrant for Purkiss was authorized by a court in Nairobi in September. Legal prosecutors informed the Kenyan judiciary that the individual had been charged with a one count, of homicide, and that the government of Kenya would request his deportation to face charges.

He served formerly as a medic with the regiment of the Duke of Lancaster, the infantry regiment for the English northwest, including on tours of Afghanistan.

Agnes Wanjiru, twenty-one, a hairdresser who had a young daughter, vanished after a night on the town, and her remains was discovered 60 days later in the grounds of the hotel where she had previously spotted.

No one had earlier been detained or accused in connection to her passing. The arrest of Purkiss followed a new police inquiry, which followed a report in the year 2021 by a weekly publication, in which the publication approached several current and former soldiers in the unit.

The probe has been spearheaded by Kenyan detectives, which, under a mutual defense pact, retains jurisdiction in the legal case.