LONDON (AP) — A former British soldier said Friday that he would fight extradition to Kenya where he faces charges of murder in the death of a woman whose decomposed body was found in a septic tank 13 years ago.

Robert James Purkiss, 38, appeared in Westminster Magistrates’ Court to contest his transfer to Kenya, where he is charged in the killing of Agnes Wanjiru, who was last seen leaving a hotel bar with British soldiers in the town of Nanyuki, near a British army training ground.

British soldiers on leave had been drinking heavily on March 31, 2012, at a hotel where they were known to pay local women for sex, Prosecutor Joel Smith said.

Wanjiru, 21, had left her baby daughter with a friend that night and said she was going to “hustle for her daughter,” Smith said.

“She was never se

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