They must be punished.”The case’s uncertainties might be cleared up in a British court – if it ever reaches one. At school, other children shunned him; Masai warriors refused to attend his circumcision ceremony. His mother was drinking too much, he said, “to forget those problems”.He said: “The British have done a very bad thing They caused the divorce of my mother and father. It’s making the whole thing look like it’s not true,” she said.Elizabeth Naeku was raped in 1980 by British soldiers building a school in her village She said that they walked into her house and assaulted her.

The attack resulted in the birth of her son Maxwell, 23, who has light skin, orange hair and features that suggest white blood.As a “half-caste” Maxwell suffered bad discrimination. There was three of them,” she said.Now she fears the flood of false claimants will endanger her bid for compensation “It’s very wrong. “Money aside, it will bring dignity back to our community,” he said.Jennifer Koinante said that British soldiers raped her as she walked down a remote bush track 18 years ago “They forced me to lie down, and held my hands. So it is extremely difficult to know how many are genuine,” Simon Ole Kaparo of Impact said.But he added that hundreds of genuine claimants had been wronged. Impact, the local group helping to organise the lawsuit, said that up to half the claimants might be false “About 70 per cent don’t have documentary evidence.

Last week, British army investigators said forensic science tests showed that police records had been forged.Others faked medical records, or “borrowed” mixed-race children. About 650 women allege they were raped by British soldiers over the past 30 years. Human rights groups, including Amnesty International, back their claims.But there is evidence suggesting that several claims are bogus. “The Masai told us, ‘If you are going to tell the truth, we don’t want you’,” said Angela, 24.A cloud hangs over the £20m rape lawsuit against the British army in Kenya. But while her little boy had been fathered by a British soldier named Ronnie, he was not the result of rape.Three other women with mixed-race children had similar stories. But they will not take away your baby’,” the 26-year-old said at her home in Nanyuki, near the British army base in northern Kenya.
The bogus rape claim would earn Muthoni 3m shillings (£24,000) in compensation, the Masai told her They would take one third, the rest was hers.