British army to investigate conduct of troops in Kenya amid rape and murder claims

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/27/mod-investigate-british-troops-kenya-itv-documentary

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  1. Due_Background_3268 on

    Having been in situations that have later had inquests the usual result is unrecognisable to the incident and finds the mod wholly not at fault.

  2. What is really worrying, aside from the tragic murder of a young woman, is that apparently people in his regiment knew and apparently did nothing about it.

    If this is true then more people than the alleged murderer need to be held to account.

    Moral courage is one of the values of the British army, and that means do the right thing not the easy thing, and if that is shopping one of your mates for potentially being a murderer then so be it.

  3. “She lived in Nanyuki, where soldiers would socialise in their downtime, drinking heavily and paying local women as little as £1 for sex.

    Wanjiru, who was stabbed multiple times, was last seen drinking with British troops. A Kenyan inquest found that one or more British soldiers were responsible for her murder.

    Yet despite a suspect being named by several members of his regiment, and a witness providing startling testimony in which he described being taken by the alleged perpetrator to see Agnes’s body in the septic tank where she was later found, nobody has been prosecuted over her death.”

    Some truly horrific stuff at the link. Girls as young 13 being raped, gang raped, urinated on and just generally abused.