Martin Jeremy Day wants State to avail ‘hidden’ rape evidence

By Job Weru

Kenya: A British lawyer has written to the Director of Public Prosecutions, seeking to compel the Government to release documentary evidence on rape cases he is pursuing against British Army soldiers.

Mr Martin Jeremy Day, who represented hundreds of Maasai and Samburu women who claimed to have been raped by British soldiers training in Kenya, in a letter dated June 13 this year accused Kenyan authorities of ‘hiding’ the documents, which could have helped the Royal Military Police investigate the matter for the rape cases to proceed.

Concerned women

Day said in his letter addressed to Keriako Tobiko: “I write to ask that an investigation be undertaken regarding documents obtained by the Royal Military Police in investigating the claims and try to locate them.”

He said the RMP sent an investigation team to the affected areas, where the investigators probed all concerned women between April 2003 and July 2004.

“They also obtained some 1,778 police logs from 30 police stations of women making allegations, 23 entries relating to 65 complaints. They formed the view that all of these entries had been forged,” read the letter in part.