{"id":81530,"date":"2025-11-22T12:20:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=81530"},"modified":"2025-11-22T12:20:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:20:44","slug":"british-ex-soldier-charged-with-2012-murder-of-kenyan-woman-denies-meeting-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/22\/british-ex-soldier-charged-with-2012-murder-of-kenyan-woman-denies-meeting-her\/","title":{"rendered":"British ex-soldier charged with 2012 murder of Kenyan woman denies meeting her"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1QWuDf.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6&amp;x=856&amp;y=291&amp;s=171&amp;d=171\" alt=\"Robert Purkiss is being held on remand in a London prison after being refused bail. Photograph: Solent News &amp; Photo Agency\/Solent News\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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: \u201cI do not believe I ever met her.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/british-ex-soldier-charged-with-2012-murder-of-kenyan-woman-denies-meeting-her\/ar-AA1QWEFU?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6921a6a9bcc6415e8b2ec4125a9d719b&amp;ei=62\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A former British soldier accused of murdering a Kenyan woman whose body was found in a septic tank in 2012 has spoken&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-relationships"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Agnes-Wanjiru.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81531,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81530\/revisions\/81531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}