Missionary killed in Kenyan robbery: CEN 4.18.08 p 7. April 19, 2008
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An English Roman Catholic missionary has been killed during a robbery in Kenya, the Catholic Information Service of Africa reports.
Brother Brian Thorp (77), a Mill Hill Missionary was found dead on April 10 in his rectory in Lamu Island in the diocese of Mombasa.
Born in Bamford, Derbyshire, Br. Thorp went out to Basankusu in the Congo in 1973, and served in Kenya and Uganda before his appointment to Lamu Island in 1999. Fr Francis Schouten, the parish priest of Lamu said the Kenyan police services were investigating the killing.
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