Ex-Boyfriend Accused of Killing Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei in Horrific Petrol Assault Dies from Burns

The ex-boyfriend accused of killing Ugandan Olympian runner Rebecca Cheptegei by setting her on hearth has died from his burns, in line with a hospital official.

Dickson Ndiema Marangach was accused of dousing Cheptegei, 33, in petrol and setting her on hearth on Sept. 1. Cheptegei was taken to Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya, with burns on greater than 75 p.c of her physique, as reported by Reuters. She died 4 days later. 

Ndiema Marangach was taken to the identical hospital and was admitted to the ICU with burns on greater than 40 p.c of his physique.

“He developed respiratory failure as a result of the severe airway burns and sepsis that led to his eventual death,” Philip Kirwa, the CEO of the hospital, stated in a press release.

Local media reported that Ndiema Marangach allegedly ambushed Cheptegei after she returned dwelling from church. The two had reportedly had a number of disagreements a couple of piece of land in northwest Kenya the place Cheptegei lived and educated.

Neighbors instructed native media that they heard screams earlier than Cheptegei got here operating to them for assist.

“I don’t wish bad things on anyone, but of course I would have loved for him to face the law as an example for others so that these attacks on women can stop,” Beatrice Ayikoru, secretary-general of the Uganda Olympic Committee, instructed Reuters.

Cheptegei completed forty fourth within the marathon on the Paris Olympics. She was the third elite sportswoman from Kenya to be killed since October 2021. In every case, police named the ladies’s present or former romantic companion because the suspect.

Agnes Tirop, who held the world report for the 10-kilometer race, was stabbed to loss of life in 2021, and Damaris Mutea, who was born in Kenya however competed for Bahrain, was strangled in 2022, as reported by the BBC. 

Police had been treating Cheptegei’s loss of life as homicide, which meant that Marangach would have confronted fees because the prime suspect, however since his loss of life the felony case has been dropped and an inquest into the deaths shall be opened as a substitute.

“Justice really would have been for him to sit in jail and think about what he had done. This is not positive news whatsoever,” Viola Cheptoo, the co-founder of Tirop’s Angels, a help group for survivors of home violence in Kenya’s athletic neighborhood, instructed Reuters.

A nationwide survey from 2022 discovered that 34 p.c of Kenyan women and girls ages 15 to 49 reported experiencing bodily violence. Married ladies confronted an excellent increased danger at 41 p.c.

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