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A soldier from Greater Manchester has been named as the suspect in the murder of a woman whose body was discovered in a septic tank behind a Kenyan hotel.

Court documents from Kenya, initially reported by the Sunday Times, reveal that Robert James Purkiss is charged with a single count of murdering Agnes Wanjiru on the night of March 31, 2012.

An inquest in 2018 concluded that Ms Wanjiru was murdered by British soldiers after her body was found near a British Army base, two months following her disappearance.

A warrant for Purkiss's arrest was issued on Tuesday, and the Sunday Times reported that Kenyan authorities will seek his extradition.

The newspaper revealed that the suspect, from Greater Manchester , previously served as a medic with the Duke of Lancaster regimen

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