Ex British Serviceman Charged of Murdering Kenya Woman Shows Up in Court

An individual has been presented in court as extradition proceedings commenced in the case of Agnes Wanjiru, a Kenyan national, a female from Kenya who was found dead near a UK military installation in 2012.

Robert Purkiss, thirty-eight, who is a native of the Manchester area, showed up in the Westminster court on Friday, and told the court he intended to contest the deportation. Sources suggest that he was taken into custody on the evening of Thursday.

A detention order for the suspect was authorized by a court in Nairobi in September. The prosecution informed the Kenyan judiciary that Purkiss had been facing a one count, of killing, and that the Kenyan authorities would pursue his extradition to face charges.

He was once employed as a medical attendant with the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment, the army unit for the English northwest, including on missions to Afghanistan.

The victim, twenty-one, a hair stylist who had a young daughter, vanished after a night on the town, and her remains was discovered 60 days later in the area of the accommodation where she had most recently observed.

Nobody had previously been taken into custody or indicted in association with her passing. The arrest of Purkiss followed a new police inquiry, which came after a article in the year 2021 by the Sunday Times, in which the media outlet approached several current and former soldiers in the regiment.

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