Did Asbel Kiprop Impregnate 16-Year Old Junior World Champ?

Published by the Standard on October 24, 2014

World and Olympic 1500m champion Asbel Kiprop has been accused of kidnapping a minor, brandishing a pistol and threatening to kill a woman he has had a relationship with for half a decade.

On one occasion, Asbel, a police inspector who is alleged to be ill tempered, is accused of having pointed a gun at his lover in front of her son and house help.

“He has ill-tempered, having threatened to kill me on several occasions, most recently on October 17 when he pointed a pistol at me,” Sammary Cherotich, Asbel’s longtime lover, said in a replying affidavit in a court case where the athletic champ is seeking custody of a five year old boy.

Cherotich accuses Asbel of kidnapping her son from school and taking him to unknown destination thereby denying the child motherly love and attention. Cherotich, a 1500 metre gold medalist who took the crown at the IAAF World Youth Athletics Championships at Ostrava, Czech Republic in 2007, said she left her matrimonial home after the violence escalated.

“Asbel used to physically attack me in the presence of my son and hence I left my matrimonial home for my safety and that of my child and went and put up with my sister,” said Cherotich in her affidavit.