United Kingdom's Minister of State for the Armed Forces James Heappey has offered to meet the family of Agnes Wanjiru, a Kenyan woman who was allegedly killed by a British soldier in Nanyuki in 2012.
Speaking during an interview on BBC, Heappey expressed his willingness to meet the family of the deceased and have a discussion with them over the matter.
Heappey expressed that he would take time to listen to their grievances given that the family had been pursuing justice for over a decade.
"I am happy to meet and discuss and sympathise and understand as best I can," he offered.
The minister made the remarks months after Wanjiru's family wrote to King Charles over the death of their kin which occurred in Nanyuki in 2012.
In the letter addressed to the King in October 2023, Wanjiru's family called on the King to meet them given that several attempts to have the perpetrator brought to book proved futile.
At the time, the King was preparing to make his first State visit to Kenya.
"There is a belief in many parts of the world that innocent blood cries out loudly from the ground. It may be the case for Agnes. Her daughter is at the age now where she is beginning to ask questions about what happened to her mother.
"It pains me to tell Stacey that justice for Agnes has not yet prevailed. There has been a massive cover-up, starting from the moment her body was dumped in a hotel septic tank," read the letter in part.
Wanjiru was reported to have been killed by a British soldier in 2012. Her body was found dumped in a septic tank.
Previously, various agencies in the country including human rights organisations have been pushing to have the soldier extradited to Kenya to face murder charges.
In 2021, it was also revealed that the soldier joked about the incident on social media by posting photos of the reported crime scene with the caption 'If you know, you know' accompanied by a crying emoji.
