September 10, (THEWILL) – Dickson Ndiema Marangach, the boyfriend of Ugandan Olympic athlete, Rebecca Cheptegei, has died, the Kenyan hospital treating him said on Tuesday.
Marangach died from injuries he sustained when he doused his girlfriend with petrol before setting her ablaze.
THEWILL reported earlier that Marangach assaulted Cheptegei in her home in western Kenya on September 1. The mother-of-two sustained 80 percent burns and died last week.
In the course of the attack, Marangach also incurred 30 percent burns and was being treated in the intensive care unit at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in the Rift Valley city of Eldoret.
“It’s true we lost Dickson Ndiema last night at about 8:00 pm. His family had been informed and a comprehensive statement would be released later”, an official at the hospital’s communications department said.
The attack on the 33-year-old Cheptegei, has been greeted with sorrow and anger as yet another horrific example of gender-based violence in the East African country.
