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Britain's defence ministry says a subordinate of the equipped forces has been arrested successful Kenya and U.K. subject constabulary are investigating
LONDON -- A subordinate of Britain’s equipped forces has been arrested successful Kenya and U.K. subject constabulary are investigating, the Ministry of Defense said Sunday.
The BBC and different British media reported that a British Army worker was accused of rape.
“We tin corroborate the apprehension of a Service idiosyncratic successful Kenya,” the defence ministry said successful a statement. “As the substance is the taxable of an ongoing probe by the Defence Serious Crime Command, we volition not remark further.”
A U.K.-Kenya defence practice statement allows thousands of British soldiers to bid successful the East African state each year. About 200 U.K. troops are based determination permanently to bid Kenyan soldiers.
Some Kenyans person agelong complained astir the soldiers’ behavior and the ambiance astir their grooming campy adjacent the municipality of Nanyuki. There was an outcry implicit the 2012 decease of 21-year-old Agnes Wanjiru, who was past seen live leaving a barroom with British troops adjacent their grooming camp. Her assemblage was aboriginal recovered successful a septic tank.
Wanjiru’s household has campaigned for years for the suspected perpetrator, a serving British worker astatine the time, to beryllium charged. In April, U.K Defense Secretary John Healey met with Wanjiru’s relatives successful Kenya and vowed to “help the household unafraid the justness they deserve.”
The British Army has launched an enquiry into allegations of unacceptable behaviour by U.K. unit successful Kenya.
The Ministry of Defense said successful a connection that each British unit successful the state “have wide absorption astir however to behave, connected and disconnected duty, indispensable implicit mandatory grooming and be compulsory briefings connected conduct. We volition person zero tolerance for unacceptable behavior.”
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