Agnes Wanjiru: Childhood friend says murdered woman was no prostitute

That night of March 31, 2012 when Agnes Wanjiru Wanjiku, 21, died at the hands of British army soldiers at a hotel in Nanyuki, her older sister had a premonition that something was amiss. Rose Wanyua Wanjiku, now 49, had turned down Wanjiru’s desperate plea to babysit her five-month-old daughter, instead beseeching her not to go out that night.

But Wanjiru was stubbornly determined to go out, as if death was hastening her to the unmarked grave at the Nanyuki cemetery at Kabiru near Nanyuki High where her bones rest. She had told childhood friends Susan Nyambura Wanjiru and Florence Nyaguthi Mugo that she wanted to go out and nick some cash from inebriated British Army Training Unit in Kenya (Batuk) soldiers who would get in her way.