A Kenyan High Court has issued an arrest warrant for a British national accused of murdering a 21-year-old woman more than a decade ago.
Agnes Wanjiru was stabbed to death and left in a septic tank of a hotel in Nanyuki in 2012 after she had allegedly spent a night partying with British soldiers.
The mysterious death sparked outrage in Kenya and her family have long been fighting for justice.
But Justice Alexander Muteti has now revealed that prosecutors have provided sufficient evidence to request the suspect is hauled before a Kenyan court for trial.
A lawyer representing Ms Wanjiru’s family told the BBC that proceedings can now begin to start for the suspect’s extradition from the UK.
The identities of the accused and witnesses cannot be published for legal reasons.
Ms Wanjiru was last seen with British soldiers on a night out in the Lion’s Court hotel in her home town on March 31 2012.
She vanished that night until her body was found dumped inside a septic tank at the hotel about three months later. She had a five-month-old daughter at the time of her disappearance,
Ms Wanjiru had been stabbed near her waist and had suffered a broken arm and leg. Pathologists later suggested these injuries may not have been fatal – raising the prospect she was still alive when she was dumped in the tank.
Her body was found just 50 yards from rooms which, according to hotel records, had been booked by British soldiers.
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Agnes Wanjiru, 21, (pictured) was last seen alive with British troops at a hotel in Nanyuki in March 2012
