A suspect has been presented in court as deportation processes started in the case of Agnes Wanjiru, a woman of Kenyan origin who was killed near a UK military installation in the year 2012.
The accused Robert Purkiss, 38 years old, who is a native of the Manchester area, showed up in Westminster magistrates court on Friday, and informed the court he planned to fight the extradition request. Reports indicate that he was detained on Thursday evening.
A detention order for the suspect was issued by a Kenyan court in Nairobi in September. The prosecution told the Kenyan court that Purkiss had been charged with a sole charge, of homicide, and that the government of Kenya would request his deportation to answer to accusations.
He served formerly as a medical attendant with the Lancaster Regiment, the army unit for the English northwest, including on deployments in Afghanistan.
Wanjiru, twenty-one, a hair stylist who had a young daughter, disappeared after a evening out, and her remains was found 60 days later in the area of the accommodation where she had last been seen.
No one had before been taken into custody or indicted in association with her passing. His detention came after a recent detective probe, which followed a report in 2021 by a Sunday newspaper, in which the media outlet reached out to several serving and ex-military personnel in the regiment.
The probe has been headed by investigators from Kenya, which, under a bilateral security treaty, maintains prosecutorial power in the legal case.
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