{"id":195612,"date":"2025-04-07T23:10:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T21:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-defence-secretary-meets-family-of-agnes-wanjiru-in-kenya\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T23:10:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T21:10:03","slug":"kenya-defence-secretary-meets-family-of-agnes-wanjiru-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-defence-secretary-meets-family-of-agnes-wanjiru-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Defence Secretary Meets Family of Agnes Wanjiru in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Defence Secretary, John Healey, has today met with the family of Agnes Wanjiru, a 21-year-old Kenyan woman who was allegedly murdered by British soldiers more than 13 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The meeting comes as the Kenyan Director of Public Prosecutions has today confirmed Agnes&#8217; case has been referred to senior prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Agnes, a 21-year-old mother who lived near the Nanyuki base of BATUK, the British Army Unit in Kenya, was allegedly murdered by British soldiers more than 13 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Her body was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504070706.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defence Secretary, John Healey, has today met with the family of Agnes Wanjiru, a 21-year-old Kenyan woman who was allegedly murdered by British soldiers more than 13 years ago. The meeting comes as the Kenyan Director of Public Prosecutions has today confirmed Agnes&#8217; case has been referred to senior prosecutors. Agnes, a 21-year-old mother [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":195613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661907:f2cbfc8f28cd10c4b942d7ee88bd397d:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,24489,6874,5203,4688,430,6271,257,5932,254,8209],"class_list":["post-195612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agnes","tag-defence","tag-family","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-meets","tag-news","tag-secretary","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wanjiru"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661907:f2cbfc8f28cd10c4b942d7ee88bd397d:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}