A former British soldier accused of murdering a Kenyan woman whose body was found in a septic tank in 2012 has spoken publicly about the allegations, saying: “I do not believe I ever met her.”

Robert James Purkiss, 38, faces extradition to Kenya, where he is wanted for the alleged “brutal” murder of 21-year-old Agnes Wanjiru in Nanyuki, a town near a British army training camp.

View image in fullscreen Agnes Wanjiru was found two months after she disappeared in March 2012 in a septic tank behind a hotel in the town of Nanyuki, Kenya. Photograph: Family handout/PA

An inquest in 2018 concluded Wanjiru, a hairdresser and the mother of a five-month-old baby, was murdered by British soldiers after she was found half-naked in a septic tank at the Lions Court hotel two months after she d

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