Nairobi — Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has been admitted on the Moi Educating 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 keeping with a police report filed by space chief Rose Chebet, the incident occurred at 2.00 am within the afternoon when Cheptegei returned residence 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 youngsters 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 be recuperating at MTRH after the hearth 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 continuously 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 ladies’s marathon.
She was additionally in rivalry eventually 12 months’s World Championships in Budapest the place she got here 14th after clocking 2:29:34.
The 33-year-old’s finest ever end result so far is on the Padova Marathon in 2022 the place she clocked 2:31:21 to complete first.
She additionally received gold on the World Mountain and Path Working Championships in Chiang Mai, Thailand in 2022.