Lawyer Guy Spencer Elms is now facing serious legal trouble after a Nairobi Magistrate’s Court issued a warrant for his arrest.
The court acted after Elms failed to show up to answer to several charges connected to forgery and attempts to take land using false documents.
Principal Magistrate Ben Mark Ekubi approved the request by the prosecution after they told the court that Elms had ignored a legal summons.
This action has put Elms in the spotlight as someone who seems to be avoiding justice.
The lawyer representing Elms tried to explain his absence, saying Elms was dealing with a family emergency involving a sick child.
The lawyer also mentioned that Elms had already arranged to travel back into the country and would appear in court as required. However, the court was not satisfied with this excuse.
The magistrate ruled that there was no valid reason for Elms to skip court and ordered that he must now be arrested and brought in on August 11 to take a plea.
The arrest warrant adds to growing suspicion that Elms may be trying to escape accountability.
The details of the case show that Elms is facing five criminal charges.
The first one claims that sometime before March 24, 1997, he created a false will and tried to pass it off as a real document made by the late Roger Bryan Robson.
The second charge says that in 2015, Elms took this same forged will to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations and presented it as genuine to a police officer.
A third charge accuses him of forging a Power of Attorney document in 2010, again pretending it was signed by the deceased Robson.
He used this same fake document again in 2015 when he handed it to the same DCI officer.
The most serious accusation is that Elms used these fake documents to try and claim valuable land in Karen.
The prosecution believes that on October 30, 2013, he went to the High Court in Nairobi and tried to use a fraudulent will to gain control of two plots of land worth Ksh 100 million.
All these allegations suggest a long-standing effort to misuse the name of a dead man to gain access to prime property.
Elms now finds himself in a very difficult position. His actions in avoiding court only make things worse and raise more questions about his intentions.
With the next court date set for August 11, all eyes will be on whether he shows up and how the case moves forward. His absence so far has only strengthened the image of a man trying to avoid facing justice.
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