On a humid Saturday night in March 2012, a slim young woman with long braided hair walked into the air-conditioned bar of the Lions Court Inn hotel in Nanyuki, Kenya. Agnes Wanjiru, 21, sat at a table with two friends. Beside them a dancefloor heaved with dozens of British soldiers, drinking bottles of Tusker beer, dancing with local women and taking them back to their rooms.
At about midnight, Agnes — who had left her five-month-old daughter with a babysitter — left the bar arm-in-arm with one of the soldiers. It would be the last time she was seen alive.
Two months later the sex worker’s battered body was found in the fetid sludge of a septic tank yards from the lodges the soldiers had