Irish priest killed in Kenya ‘for phone and small things’

AN elderly Irish priest was stabbed to death in the bedroom of his Kenyan mission for “the sake of a mobile phone and a few small things”.

Fr Jeremiah Roche, who was planning to retire next year and return to his family home in Athea, west Limerick, was brutally murdered in the Kericho region of the country in the early hours of Friday morning.

After a parishioner found the 68-year-old in a pool of blood hours later, local police began a full scale murder investigation.