Kenya charges two with robbing Irish priest

Nairobi, 30 Dec-(ANA)-Kenya has charged two men with violently stealing from an Irish Catholic priest who had worked as a missionary in the country for more than four decades, police said on Tuesday.

Jeremiah Roche, a 68-year-old from west Limerick, was stabbed to death two weeks ago, during a robbery at his home on the outskirts of Kericho town, about 200 km (120 miles) west of Nairobi.

Isaac Kipng'etich and Godfrey Kariuki Kiiru denied robbing Roche of a laptop computer, a camera, two mobile phones, a CD player, an Internet connection modem and personal documents.

Prosecutors said the goods were valued at 180,000 shillings ($ 2,370). Police sources said they charged the two with robbery because the crime was easier to prove in court than murder. (ANA)

FA/ANA/30 December 2009---