A lawyer dealing with expenses on the International Criminal Court (ICC) in a earlier case linked to Kenya’s just lately elected president has been discovered lifeless.
Paul Gicheru had pleaded not responsible in February to eight counts of interfering with witnesses in a previous case towards William Ruto, who was charged with involvement in violence after Kenya‘s 2007 election that left 1,200 folks lifeless.
Mr Ruto, who grew to become president earlier this month, denied the allegations and the ICC dropped the case in 2016 following claims of political interference.
The expenses had additionally been made towards earlier president Uhuru Kenyatta, amongst others. Mr Ruto was deputy president on the time, having served from 2013 till this 12 months’s election.
But the courtroom in The Hague left leeway for contemporary expenses in future, and judges have been contemplating their verdicts within the case towards 50-year-old Gicheru.
His household discovered him unconscious at his dwelling on Monday evening, “lying on the back, clean, casually dressed” with no traces of saliva or blood “on any body opening”.
A police report seen by the Associated Press famous the lawyer’s well being issues, together with that he’s a “known diabetic and high blood pressure patient”.
‘He was not himself’
The reason for Gicheru’s dying was not instantly recognized.
Relatives had described him as pressured within the hours earlier than, based on household lawyer John Khaminwa.
“He was not himself,” Mr Khaminwa stated.
The Kenya Human Rights Commission has stated it was “concerned with the shocking news of the untimely death” and has known as for an investigation.
ICC spokesman Fadi El Abdallah stated: “If there is information about the death of an accused, a confirmation of this information should be submitted to the (trial) chamber and then the chamber issues a decision ending the case.”
No date had been set for a listening to to ship a judgment within the case.
Source: information.sky.com”