Alleged killer of Ugandan Olympian dies from burns, hospital says

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Alleged ******* of Ugandan Olympian ***** from burns, hospital says

By Ammu Kannampilly

ELDORET, Kenya (Reuters) -The former partner of Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei, who is accused of ******** her by dousing her in petrol and setting her on *****, has ***** from burns sustained during the *******, the Kenyan hospital where he was being treated said on Tuesday.

Cheptegei, 33, who competed in the marathon at the Paris Olympics, suffered burns to more than 75% of her body in the Sept. 1 ******* and ***** four days later.

Her former boyfriend, Dickson Ndiema Marangach, ***** at 7:50 p.m. (1650 GMT) on Monday, said Daniel Lang’at, a spokesperson at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret in western Kenya, where Cheptegei was also treated and *****.

“He ***** from his injuries, the burns he sustained,” Lang’at told Reuters. Local media reported that he had suffered 30% burns when he assaulted Cheptegei as she was returning home from ******* with her children.

Cheptegei, who finished 44th in Paris, is the third elite sportswoman to be ******* in Kenya since October 2021. Her ****** has put the spotlight on domestic ********* in the East ******** country, particularly within its running community.

Rights groups say female athletes in Kenya, where many international runners train in the high-altitude highlands, are at a high risk of exploitation and ********* at the hands of men drawn to their prize money, which far exceeds local incomes.

“Justice really would have been for him to sit in jail and think about what he had done. This is not positive news whatsoever,” said Viola Cheptoo, co-founder of Tirop’s Angels, a support group for survivors of domestic ********* in Kenya’s athletic community.

“The shock of Rebecca’s ****** is still fresh,” Cheptoo told Reuters.

Cheptoo co-founded Tirop’s Angels in memory of Agnes Tirop, a rising star in Kenya’s highly competitive athletics scene, who was found ***** in her home in the town of Iten in October 2021, with multiple stab wounds to the neck.

Ibrahim Rotich, Tirop’s husband, was charged with her ******* and has pleaded not guilty. The case is ongoing.

Nearly 34% of Kenyan ****** and women aged 15-49 years have suffered physical *********, according to government data from 2022, with married women at particular risk. The 2022 survey found that 41% of married women had faced *********.

Globally, a woman is ******* by someone in her own family every 11 minutes, according to a 2023 UN Women study.

(Additional reporting by Humphrey Malalo and Sonia Rao; Writing by Hereward Holland; Editing by Alexander Winning and Ros Russell)

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