"The proceedings are declared a mistrial due to a troubling incidence of witness interference and intolerable political meddling," judges said in a ruling issued yesterday and seen by Reuters.
The collapse of the case against Ruto and his co-accused, broadcaster Joshua arap Sang, follows that last year of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta.
In both cases, judges have found that witnesses linking the two to murderous violence that followed Kenya's 2007 elections were bribed or threatened into silence.
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