July 9, 2021
By Audrey John
After he allegedly killed his wife in a bush, sometimes this year, police sergeant Yusuf Dauda Bangura, with force number 2267, on Thursday 8th July 2021, testifies against Sheriff Kamara (in his early thirties) in an ongoing preliminary investigation into the alleged murder of his wife.
According to the police, accused person, Sheriff Kamara, on the 5th February 2020, at “Machamra Village” Rominda Chiefdom, North West Region of the country, allegedly murdered one Marian Kongaima who happens to be his wife.
Police slammed a count of murder contrary to law on the accused, Sheriff Kamara.
Sergeant Bangura recalled that on the 5th February 2020, he was on duty at the Adonkia Police Station, when he received information from another sergeant in respect of a man who has allegedly killed his wife.
He continued that, himself, and other senior police officers boarded SLP 151 to “Gbomsamba” Police Post. “Upon arrival at the police post we met the accused in handcuffs having been arrested by the police officers there,” he said.
Sergeant Bangura said he and his team of Police officer were led to the crime scene where the accused identified the deceased whom he said is his wife. “We saw the deceased lying in a bush with bruises all over her face,” he said.
He disclosed that the deceased was lying naked. Sergeant Bangura said he used his mobile phone and took Snap shots of the deceased, adding that he asked the accused the instruments he used to kill the deceased. “The deceased showed me a kitchen knife which he used to stab his wife,” Sergeant Bangura revealed.
Bangura added that he and his colleague officers got help from the community people, together with the accused person who helped them convey the corpse to the Lunsar Police Station. He said on that same day, the deceased was conveyed to the Connaught Hospital Mortuary, adding that the following day, Sergeant Bangura and his team witnesses a postmortem examination by the country’s Pathologist, Dr. Owizz Koroma.
He furthered that after the postmortem examination, a cause of death certificate was issued in respect of the deceased. He said photos which he took at the Crime scene were developed into photographs. Bangura produced and tendered the photos and the mobile phone which he used to take the snap shots at the Crime Scene and at the Mortuary.
Accused person, Kamara who was not represented by a lawyer, said he hadn’t any questions to ask the witness when he was asked to do so.
ASP Bah requested for a adjournment to enable her bring her last witness to court.
Magistrate Kekura adjourned the matter to the 15th July 2021, while Kamara was sent back to the remand cell at the Male Correctional Facility on Pademba Road in Freetown.