By William Koome
The UK’s Minister for the Armed Forces, James Heappey has reiterated the UK’s full support to the ongoing investigation over the killing of Nanyuki woman nine years ago.
Mr Heappey said the UK Royal Military Police was already assisting Kenyan counterparts with lines of inquiry into the alleged killing of 21-year-old Agnes Wanjiru by a British soldier.
“The tragic murder of Agnes Wanjiru is no different. I offered the UK’s full co-operation with the Kenyan enquiry…We will leave no stone unturned as we provide our full support to the investigation,” the Minister said at the British Army Training Unit Kenya (BATUK) in Nanyuki where he met a horde of representatives of the local community to hear their concerns.
Accompanied by Defence CS Eugene Wamalwa, Mr Heappey said the British Army was committed to upholding the highest standards of discipline, lawful behaviour and respect for others wherever in the world it is operating.
“Any allegations of wrongdoing are investigated thoroughly and anyone who falls below our high standards is held to account,” he maintained.
The woman’s body with stab wounds was found in a septic tank at a hotel about three months after she spent a night reveling with the soldiers who had at the time already left Kenya for their country.
Ms Wanjiru left behind a five-month-old daughter.
In a shocking revelation, an ex-soldier claimed that the colleague who killed the woman took him and other soldiers to the septic tank where he had dumped her body and admitted having killed her.
The officer said he reported the incident to senior officers at the British base in Nanyuki but no action was taken against the involved soldier.
More excruciating is that a probe by police failed to bring to book any of the suspects.
