On 26 September 2022, Paul Gicheru died in Kenya. The Kenyan lawyer was accused of witness tampering at the International Criminal Court (ICC), after the collapse of a big case on the 2007 electoral violence that involves the newly appointed president of Kenya. One month later, the ICC closed the case, looking away from the local investigation on the death.
The fate of lawyer Paul Gicheru is one of many unexplained deaths linked to the 2007-2008 political violence cases at the ICC, Widespread suspicion greeted the death of Paul Gicheru, the Kenyan lawyer who two years ago turned himself into the International Criminal Court to face charges of tampering with prosecution witnesses in the case against then Deputy President William Ruto and radio presenter Joshua arap Sang for organising ethnically-targeted violence after the 2007 elections.