Former British Serviceman Accused of Murdering Kenya Woman Shows Up in Court

A man has appeared in court as deportation processes commenced in the legal matter of Agnes Wanjiru, a Kenyan national, a Kenyan woman who was murdered near a British forces camp in the year 2012.

Purkiss, 38, who is hailing from the Manchester area, showed up in Westminster magistrates court on Friday, and told the court he would challenge the extradition. Reports indicate that he was taken into custody on the evening of Thursday.

A detention order for the defendant was issued by a Kenyan court in Nairobi in September. Legal prosecutors told the Kenyan court that the accused had been facing a sole charge, of killing, and that the Kenyan government would request his deportation to answer to accusations.

The defendant was once employed as a army medic with the Lancaster Regiment, the military regiment for the north-west of England, including on deployments in Afghanistan.

The victim, 21 years old, 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 grounds of the accommodation where she had last been seen.

Not a single person had before been detained or accused in connection to her death. His detention was the result of a recent detective probe, which was initiated after a article in the year 2021 by a weekly publication, in which the publication reached out to several current and former soldiers in the military group.

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