{"id":33182,"date":"2017-03-14T10:16:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T10:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/tristan-voorspuy-killing-suspect-arrested-in\/"},"modified":"2017-03-14T10:15:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T10:15:52","slug":"tristan-voorspuy-killing-suspect-arrested-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/tristan-voorspuy-killing-suspect-arrested-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Tristan Voorspuy killing: Suspect arrested in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A suspect in the murder of British rancher Tristan Voorspuy in the Laikipia region of northern Kenya has appeared in court.}<\/p>\n<p>Samson Lokayi, 40, was arrested on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>He did not submit a plea because he does not understand English or Swahili, the languages used in court.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Voorspuy, a founder of luxury safari company Offbeat Safaris and a former British army officer, was killed on 5 March while inspecting his lodges.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional pastoral herders were suspected of being behind the killing.<\/p>\n<p>They have invaded private ranches in the area to seize pasture amid an ongoing drought.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Voorspuy&#8217;s body was left at the scene for more than 24 hours owing to the volatile security situation.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya&#8217;s government has dispatched police units to the region to improve order.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lokayi is expected to appear again in court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18735 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_94949058_tristanvoorspuy1-2.jpg\" alt=\"Tristan Voorspuy was in the British army for six years.\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:BBC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A suspect in the murder of British rancher Tristan Voorspuy in the Laikipia region of northern Kenya has appeared in court.} Samson Lokayi, 40, was arrested on Sunday. He did not submit a plea because he does not understand English or Swahili, the languages used in court. Mr Voorspuy, a founder of luxury safari company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-33182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33182"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=33182"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=33182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}