Kenyan police have revealed that two people are in custody following the brutal killing of long-distance runner, Benjamin Kiplagat.
Kiplagat was stabbed with a knife on the neck and his lifeless body was discovered inside his brother’s vehicle on New Year’s Eve in Eldoret, Kenya.
According to the Moiben Sub-County Police Commander Stephen Okal the deceased was a victim of a robbery and his assailants took his money and mobile phone during the attack. The criminal duo attacked Kiplagat on a motor cycle and fled the scene with the murder weapon.
He says they managed to arrest the suspects with the help of CCTV footage that showed what transpired minutes before the deceased was killed. Okal said the CCTV shows Kiplagat trying to escape his assailants in a black Toyota Hilux at about 1:15 am, along Kimumu Junction in Eldoret, until he looses control while trying to negotiate a sharp corner, crashing into a ditch. Moment later two suspects arrive at the scene, stab the suspect before fleeing the scene.
However, Okal says police have since found the knife with one of the suspects and they are slated to appear in courts of law.
“We are in the advanced stage of the investigations and we will possibly be sending them to court tomorrow,” he said
Kiplagat made his international debut at the 2006 World Cross Country Championships, having qualified by finishing 6th in the Ugandan Junior Cross Country Championships.
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