UK soldier accused of raping British woman in Kenya

A UK worker accused of raping a pistillate adjacent a arguable British service basal successful Kenya allegedly attacked a British national, not a Kenyan, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed.

In a connection the subject said the antheral had been arrested and sent backmost to the UK pursuing the alleged incidental past period adjacent the British Army Training Unit successful Kenya (Batuk).

The allegation is being investigated by the UK military, which has jurisdiction implicit the matter, and does not impact Kenyan police.

The alleged rape is the latest allegation of misconduct made against British soldiers astatine Batuk, which is adjacent the municipality of Nanyuki astir 200km (125 miles) northbound of Kenya's capital, Nairobi.

A MoD spokesperson said: "We tin corroborate the apprehension of a British work idiosyncratic successful Kenya successful narration to a study of a intersexual offence. The work idiosyncratic has been repatriated to the UK and the unfortunate is simply a British adult, not a Kenyan.

"The substance is the taxable of an ongoing probe by the UK Defence Serious Crime Command, successful accordance with the Defence Co-operation Agreement betwixt the UK and Kenya and we volition not remark further."

A UK worker has antecedently been accused of murdering a section woman, Agnes Wanjiru, whose assemblage was recovered dumped successful a septic vessel successful 2012.

The UK has said it is co-operating with a Kenyan probe into her death.

The Batuk basal was established successful 1964 soon aft the East African federation gained independency from the UK.

The UK subject has an statement with Kenya nether which it tin deploy up to six service battalions a twelvemonth for periods of grooming astatine the site.

But the British service has faced a drawstring of allegations astir the behaviour of immoderate UK unit astatine the camp.

A nationalist enquiry acceptable up by Kenyan MPs past twelvemonth heard details of alleged mistreatment of section radical by British soldiers.

The allegations included a reported hit-and-run incident, arsenic good arsenic claims that immoderate British soldiers had got section women large earlier abandoning them and their children erstwhile they returned to the UK.