A Kenyan lawyer accused of bribing witnesses in a failed International Criminal Court case is to face trial in The Hague.

The court’s pre-trial chamber said there were sufficient grounds to bring a case against Paul Gicheru, who handed himself over last November.

He is accused of systematically bribing and intimidating prosecution witnesses in the case that collapsed in 2016 against Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto.

The politician had denied murder, deportation and persecution charges during violence that followed the 2007 elections in which about 1,200 people were killed.

The charges against Mr Gicheru relate to eight witnesses.

The lawyer and those working with him are alleged to have identified, contacted and either offered them payment and/or intimidated them to recant their evidence.

Mr Gicheru denies the allegations.

Another case to do with violence following Kenya’s disputed poll in 2007 against current President Uhuru Kenyatta also collapsed.