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Turning to the femicide of champion Agnes Tirop: husband stopped

After a short hiatus, the husband of Agnes Tirop was arrested by the police a Mombasa. Thus ends an escape resulting from the intent to escape the police who have been looking for him since Kenyan champion twice bronze medal in the 10,000 meters at the World Championships and gold at the World Cross-Country Championships in 2015, she was found lifeless with stab wounds to the abdomen at her home in the high-altitude training center of Pushing, In the Kenya western. According to the agency ANSA, the man was trying to leave the country when he was intercepted and stopped by the police.

The brutal feminicide of Agnes Tirop

Agnes Tirop, who was only 25, had finished fourth in the Olympic final of the 5,000 meters at Olympic Games Tokyo just two months before the tragedy and last month he had established, in Germany, a new women’s road race world record.

The re-entry in Kenya, as explained, he had been marked by commitments, training and preparation. A demanding schedule, but one that has certainly not isolated Agnes, which was sought by her loved ones, the first to trigger the searches. The disappearance had been reported on Tuesday evening, in fact, by his father who apparently could not get in touch with the middle distance runner. When the police entered the house, they found it unfortunately Agnes Tirop in a pool of blood, bled to death by several blows with a stabbing weapon.

The movement’s appeal to justice for Agnes Tirop

The husband, Emmanuel Rotich, was immediately indicated as the possible culprit as made public by the same Federation, in the press release released close to the tragic death, the umpteenth horrible femicide that left the promise of Kenyan middle distance on the field, Agnes Tyrop. And in which the movement asked for justice for her.

VIRGILIO SPORT | 15-10-2021 10:09

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