My mother’s boyfriend ‘hugged’ me when I tried to help her during the incident — Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei’s daughter
My mother’s boyfriend ‘hugged’ me when I tried to help her during the incident — Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei’s daughter
New details have emerged regarding Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei who passed away after being s3t abl@ze by her boyfriend, Dickson Ndiema.
Local news reports that Ndiema entered Cheptegei’s home while she and her two children were at church on Sunday, September 2.
He was said to have dou§£d her with gasoline before s3tting her alight. He was also engulfed by the flames and rushed to hospital. He was b¥rned over 30 percent of his body and is reportedly in the intensive care unit recuperating.
The gruesome att@ck occurred in the presence of the runner’s two daughters, aged 11 and nine. During the att@ck, one of them rushed to her aid but was reportedly a§§aulted by Ndiema.
“He ki+ked me while I tried to run to the rescue of my mother. I immediately cried out for help, attracting a neighbor who tried to extinguish the flames with water, but it was not possible,” she told newsmen.
Cheptegei’s two children are not fathered by Ndiema.
