Murder of Agnes Wanjiru

The murder of Agnes Wanjiru took place in the town of Nanyuki, Kenya, in 2012. Her last known sighting was when she entered a hotel with British soldiers of the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, after a night out. Wanjiru's body was discovered in the hotel's septic tank two months later.

The alleged murder and subsequent 'cover-up' by the British Army was widely covered in the British press in 2021 after the contents of a WhatsApp group chat involving soldiers of the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment were leaked to journalists, showing some of the soldiers accused of murdering Wanjiru mocking her death with memes related to murder, hotels, and septic tanks.

In late 2025, a British national and former Army combat medic, Robert James Purkiss was arrested in the UK on suspicion of the murder of Wanjiru and faces extradition to Kenya to stand trial.

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