Ibrahim Rotich: The man accused of confusing Olympics star from age 17

News of the death of Agnes Tirop on October 13 shook the athletics world, but it also brought to the limelight one Ibrahim Rotich. Rotich is the prime suspect in the killing of the athlete, who represented Kenya at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, and had in 2017 and 2019 won 10,000m world bronze medals for the country.

In Iten, where Rotich lived in the same house with Tirop for over six years, neighbours knew the man, who is now in police custody, as a coach-cum-husband. But over 70km away in Kapnyamisa village in Nandi County, Rotich is known as Tirop’s coach and driver.