Kenya seeks British national’s arrest in septic tank murder

In 2012, Agnes Wanjiru was discovered successful a septic vessel astatine the Lion’s Court Hotel successful cardinal Nanyuki aft she was past seen astatine the edifice with a radical of British soldiers. 

A Kenyan tribunal has issued an apprehension warrant and requested the extradition of a British national implicit the execution of a 21-year-old pistillate adjacent a UK service grooming campy successful Kenya implicit a decennary ago.

Nairobi High Court Justice Alexander Muteti announced connected Tuesday that determination was “probable origin to bid the apprehension of the accused” and issued a warrant for “one national and nonmigratory of the United Kingdom.”

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The lawsuit has strained relations betwixt the 2 countries, which person argued implicit the jurisdiction to prosecute British soldiers successful Kenya.

In 2012, Agnes Wanjiru was discovered successful a septic vessel astatine the Lion’s Court Hotel successful cardinal Nanyuki aft she was past seen astatine the edifice with a radical of British soldiers.

Wanjiru, the azygous parent of a past four-month-old baby, was beaten, stabbed and astir apt inactive live erstwhile she was thrown into the septic tank, a Kenyan magistrate said successful a 2019 inquest.

After Muteti’s decision, the Office for the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) wrote connected X that “extradition proceedings would present beryllium initiated to guarantee the fishy is brought earlier a Kenyan court”.

“The substance volition instrumentality to tribunal connected 21st October 2025, for further directions,” the ODPP said.

DPP secures apprehension warrant for Briton linked to Agnes Wanjiru murder

The pursuit of justness for Agnes Wanjiru, a young parent brutally killed successful Nanyuki much than a decennary ago, has gained caller momentum aft the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) successfully obtained a… pic.twitter.com/3Q5dPCwpLE

— Office of The Director Of Public Prosecutions (@ODPP_KE) September 16, 2025

Wanjiru’s sister, Rose Wanyua Wanjiku, 52, welcomed the ruling and said, “Let justness prevail.”

“As a family, we are precise blessed due to the fact that it has been galore years, but present we tin spot a measurement has been made,” she told the AFP quality agency.

Wanjiru’s niece, Esther Njoki, besides told the Reuters quality bureau that portion she welcomed the news, it took excessively long.

“We are grateful to spot the Kenyan authorities has acted, though it has taken excessively agelong and kept the household successful darkness,” Njoki said.

A spokesperson for the British authorities acknowledged that the ODPP had “determined that a British National should look proceedings successful narration to the execution of Ms Wanjiru successful 2012”.

The spokesperson added that the authorities remains “absolutely committed” to helping Kenya “secure justice”.