A British soldier who was accused of rape in Kenya was flown back to the UK while the investigation was ongoing

A British soldier who was accused of rape in Kenya was flown back to the UK while the case is being looked into.

A British soldier who is accused of raping a woman near a UK military base in Kenya has been taken back to Britain. The attack is said to have happened after a night out in the town of Nanyuki, and military police are still looking into it.

The claimed attack happened last month near the British Army Training Unit Kenya (Batuk), which is near the town of Nanyuki and about 125 miles (200 km) north of Nairobi.

According to sources, the soldier was arrested and questioned by police after the incident. It is said that the incident happened after a night out with other British troops at a local bar.

The investigation is being led by the UK’s Defence Serious Crime Unit, which looks into claims of criminal behavior by British military troops both at home and abroad.

The UK Ministry of Defense (MoD) said in a statement that a service member had been arrested in Kenya.

“In our Armed Forces, unacceptable and illegal behavior has no place at all,” the MoD said. “Any serving member who reports a serious crime is investigated independently from their chain of command.”

The location and behavior of British troops stationed at the Batuk base have been the subject of long-running controversy. A different case involving the murder of 21-year-old Kenyan woman Agnes Wanjiru in 2012 is still causing a lot of worry. Her body was found in a septic tank near the camp three weeks after she was last seen with British troops.

The Sunday Times said in 2021 that they thought a British soldier had something to do with Wanjiru’s death. After that, the UK government promised to help the Kenyan probe that is still going on.

The Batuk base was built in 1964, after Kenya got its freedom from Britain. It is run under a bilateral defense agreement that lets up to six British army battalions train in Kenya every year.

But the base has been accused of wrongdoing over and over again. In 2023, Kenyan lawmakers started a parliamentary probe that heard some disturbing claims. These included a fatal hit-and-run accident and claims that some British soldiers had fathered children with local women and then left them behind when they went back to the UK.

The people of Kenya are becoming more and more against foreign troops being there, and many want both the UK and Kenyan governments to be more accountable and open.

The latest rape claim is still being looked into, and as of now, neither the name of the person charged nor any other information about the event has been made public.