A Kenyan born British Army sapper who raped a woman seven times in a ‘humiliating and degrading’ ordeal has been jailed for ten years and dismissed from the service.
Kenyan-born Robert Kariuki was found guilty of attacking a woman in July last year. In testimony to the court, the defendant reportedly threatened to kill his victim and stopped her from leaving her room to even use the toilet during a ‘sustained’ series of seven rapes over several hours.
The woman, a German, had invited Kariuki and another soldier to her flat for drinks in the army garrison town of Paderborn, Germany.
She was estranged from her British army husband at the time. The court heard she ‘willingly’ had sex with the defendant’s comrade in her bedroom while he slept on her sofa.
He is said to have attacked the woman in her bed, stuffing a teddy bear in her mouth and covering her face with a pillow after she had spent the night making love with his friend.
But when his friend left the apartment at 7.00am the following morning he went into her room, woke her up and began his rapes.
The court martial in Sennelager, Germany, heard how he was ‘jealous’ because she was not attracted to him, even though the woman considered him a friend.
Kariuki claimed sex had been consensual and that he had not been aware of what had gone on earlier that morning in the victim’s bedroom.
Kariuki, based in Germany with 35 Engineer Regiment, was imprisoned for 10 years after being found guilty at an earlier hearing on seven counts of rape, two counts of threats to kill, and one of false imprisonment.
A Kenyan British Army sapper jailed for rape in Germany
