Ex UK Serviceman Accused of Killing Kenya Woman Shows Up in Court

A man has been presented in court as deportation processes commenced in the legal matter of Agnes Wanjiru, a female from Kenya who was found dead near a British army base in 2012.

The accused Robert Purkiss, thirty-eight, who is originally from Greater Manchester region, showed up in Westminster magistrates court on Friday, and told the court he would challenge the deportation. Sources suggest that he was taken into custody on Thursday evening.

An arrest warrant for the suspect was released by a court in Nairobi in September. The prosecution told the Kenyan court that the individual had been charged with a one count, of homicide, and that the Kenyan authorities would request his deportation to answer to accusations.

The defendant was once employed as a medical attendant with the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment, the military regiment for the English northwest, including on missions to Afghanistan.

Agnes Wanjiru, twenty-one, a hair stylist who had a infant daughter, vanished after a evening out, and her remains was located 60 days later in the grounds of the lodging where she had most recently observed.

Not a single person had before been taken into custody or accused in association with her demise. Purkiss’s arrest was the result of a fresh police investigation, which followed a article in 2021 by a Sunday newspaper, in which the publication reached out to several active and retired troops in the military group.

This inquiry has been headed by investigators from Kenya, which, under a mutual defense pact, retains jurisdiction in the matter.