Two suspects appeared in a Kenyan court on Tuesday over the murder of Ugandan Olympic athlete Benjamin Kiplagat who was found dead at the weekend with a stab wound to his neck.
The two men were ordered detained for 21 days by a magistrate’s court in the Rift Valley town of Eldoret to enable police to continue investigations into the killing of the 34-year-old steeplechase runner.
The suspects, identified in court documents as David Ekhai Lokere (alias Timo), aged 25, and Peter Ushuru Khalumi, 30, were arrested on Monday.
Kiplagat’s body was discovered on a road on the outskirts of Eldoret in the early hours of Sunday morning with a stab wound to his neck.
While the motive of the killing was still unknown, police said investigations had shown that Kiplagat had been “waylaid” by the two men before he hit their motorcycle with his car.
“The two suspects are known criminals who have…
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