Nairobi — Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has been admitted on the Moi Instructing and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in Eldoret with a number of burns after allegedly being set ablaze on Sunday by her estranged boyfriend at her home in Kinyoro location in Trans Nzoia county.
In line with a police report filed by space chief Rose Chebet, the incident occurred at 2.00 am within the afternoon when Cheptegei returned house together with her two kids to search out the boyfriend, Dickson Ndiema, ready for her.
“The husband is believed to have sneaked into the compound yesterday at round 1400 hours whereas the spouse and the kids had been on the church. Upon returning, Dickson who had procured petrol started pouring on Rebecca earlier than he set her a blaze,” the report reads.
Ndiema can also be recuperating at MTRH after the fireplace caught him as he lit the matchstick.
The report reveals the 2 have been at loggerheads for some time with a plot and a home believed to be the bone of rivalry.
“The 2 individuals had been certainly a pair who always had household wrangles the place they contested over a plot and a home,” the report states.
It provides: “On the scene was discovered a 5ltr yellow jerrican, a bag and a black marvin believed to be for Dickson and a burnt cell phone believed to be for Rebecca was discovered, DCI Trans Nzoia West Subcounty investigating.”
Cheptegei was in motion at this summer season’s Paris Olympics the place she completed forty fourth within the girls’s marathon.
She was additionally in rivalry ultimately yr’s World Championships in Budapest the place she got here 14th after clocking 2:29:34.
The 33-year-old’s greatest ever end result to date is on the Padova Marathon in 2022 the place she clocked 2:31:21 to complete first.
She additionally gained gold on the World Mountain and Path Operating Championships in Chiang Mai, Thailand in 2022.
