Ex UK Serviceman Charged of Killing Kenya Female Appears in Court

A suspect has shown up before a judge as extradition hearings commenced in the investigation of Agnes Wanjiru, a Kenyan national, a female from Kenya who was killed near a British forces camp in 2012.

Robert Purkiss, thirty-eight, who is originally from Greater Manchester, showed up in Westminster magistrates court on the last Friday, and told the court he planned to fight the extradition request. Reports indicate that he was detained on Thursday evening.

A detention order for the defendant was authorized by a court in Nairobi in September. Legal prosecutors told the Kenyan court that the accused had been facing a single count, of killing, and that the Kenyan authorities would pursue his extradition to stand trial.

He served formerly as a medic with the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment, the infantry regiment for the English northwest, including on missions to Afghanistan.

Wanjiru, 21 years old, a beautician who had a baby daughter, vanished after a evening out, and her body was discovered after two months in the grounds of the hotel where she had most recently observed.

Nobody had before been detained or indicted in relation to her death. Purkiss’s arrest followed a fresh police investigation, which came after a report in 2021 by a Sunday newspaper, in which the newspaper reached out to several serving and ex-military personnel in the unit.

The probe has been headed by detectives in Kenya, which, under a mutual defense pact, holds legal authority in the legal case.