International Criminal Court (ICC) witness lawyer Paul Gicheru was on Monday night found dead in his house in Karen, Nairobi.
Police and family say Gicheru is believed to have collapsed and died but no further details were provided.
The lawyer was facing charges of bribing witnesses in the case case that faced Kenyans at ICC in regards to the 2007/2008 post election violence.
Paul Gicheru surrendered to the ICC authorities in November 2020 after evading an arrest warrant issued in March 2015 for years.
ICC prosecution claimed Gicheru had improperly engaged witnesses in the case against the now President William Ruto, journalist Joshua Arap Sang and former powerful Minister Henry Kosgey
Ruto and Sang’s case was terminated in April 2016, while ICC judges had in January 2012 declined to confirm charges against Henry Kosgey in January 2012.
The case was terminated about a year after a similar suit against President Uhuru Kenyatta was discontinued in March 2015.
During the opening remarks for the late Paul Gicheru’s witness tampering case at the Hague, ICC prosecution team explained to the court how the lawyer tried to bribe and intimidate prosecution witnesses, so as to withdraw their assistance from the court.
Hearing for the case had been concluded and it was awaiting judgement from the ICC judges.
Following the death, police are now probing circumstances under which the lawyer died at his house in a gated estate.
