A BRITISH “service individual” has reportedly been arrested on suspicion of raping a lady close to a military coaching camp in Kenya.
The alleged rape occurred final month, with the person arrested after a gaggle of troopers visited a bar within the space close to the city of Nanyuki, BBC experiences.
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Army cops have questioned the bar proprietor and safety guards who have been working the night time of the incident that occurred near the British Army Coaching Unit Kenya (Batuk), The Sunday Times reports.
In response to the paper, the bar proprietor mentioned: “They [soldiers] like this place and after I meet a few of them within the supermarkets, they inform me they’ve been banned from coming right here.
“Generally they get too drunk and I drop them on the gate at no cost.”
An investigation is being carried out by the UK army police from the Defence Severe Crime Unit.
The UK Ministry of Defence confirmed in an announcement {that a} “service individual” had been arrested in Kenya.
A MoD spokesperson mentioned in an announcement: “We are able to affirm the arrest of a Service individual in Kenya.
“Because the matter is the topic of an ongoing investigation by the Defence Severe Crime Command, we is not going to remark additional.”
A UK-Kenya defence cooperation settlement permits hundreds of Brit troopers to coach within the East African nation yearly.
About 200 UK troops are based mostly there completely to coach Kenyan troopers.
Some Kenyan folks have complained for a very long time in regards to the troopers behaviour alongside the environment round their coaching camp close to the city of Nanyuki.
There was an outcry over the 2012 demise of 21-year-old Agnes Wanjiru, who was final seen alive leaving a bar with British troops close to their coaching camp.
Her physique was tragically later present in a septic tank.
Wanjirus household has campaigned for years for the suspected perpetrator, a serving British soldier on the time, to be charged.
In April, UK Protection Secretary John Healey met with Wanjirus grieving household in Kenya and vowed to assist the household safe the justice they deserve.
The British Army has launched an inquiry into allegations of unacceptable conduct by UK personnel in Kenya.
The MoD mentioned in an announcement that every one British personnel within the nation “have clear path about the way to behave, on and off responsibility, should full necessary coaching and attend obligatory briefings on conduct.”
It added: “We could have zero tolerance for unacceptable behaviour.”
