Plans are underway by the family of the International Criminal Court witness tampering suspect-turned witness lawyer Paul Gicheru to have him buried on Thursday this week even as the actual cause of his death remains a guarded secret despite the postmortem examination conducted on Friday at Lee Funeral Home was declared inconclusive.
Gicheru’s death attracts greater national and international interest to the adminsutartion of justice of the 2007-2008 Post-Election Violence (PEV) victims where at least 1,500 died and millions of others displaced following the disputed presidential polls.
According to sources close to the family, Gicheru will be buried at his rural farm in Bahati, Nakuru County.
“Burial plans are underway.” A source told The Informer.
Findings of the autopsy examination conducted by Government Pathologist Dr. Dorothy Njeru in presence homicide detectives attached to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), family lawyers led by John Khaminwa and Katwa Kigen were not made public.
However, sources intimated the lawyer could have suffered pulmonary embolism although some samples were taken for chemical analysis.
His requiem mass will be held on Tuesday at Regina Caeli Catholic Church in Karen starting from 1.00 pm (EAT).
Gicheru who died on September 26, 2022 at his Karen residence in Nairobi was on trial for allegedly bribing and intimidating witnesses in the failed International Criminal Court (ICC) case against President William Ruto.
Gicheru had been accused by ICC prosecutors of running a witness tampering scheme that influenced the outcome of the failed case against President William Ruto that emanated from the 2007-2008 post-election violence in Kenya.
His trial opened in February 2022, with the ICC prosecutors submitting that Gicheru had bribed witnesses up to Sh1 million.
The prosecutors further alleged that Gicheru threatened the safety of the ICC witnesses, one of them at gunpoint. The 52-year-old pleaded-not-guilty.
