By: Hafsatu Z Bangura
Detective Sergent Musa Koroma has testified in the ongoing alleged murder trial of Abdulai Koroma in the High Court of Sierra Leone presided over by Justice Simeon Alieu.
The state alleged that the accused Abdulai Koroma is charged of the offence of Murder Contrary to Law and its particulars of offense states that the accused Abdulai Koroma on the 2nd day of January 2022 at Freetown in the Western Area of the Republic of Sierra Leone Murdered Elizabeth Vincent.
The Prosecution Witness DSGT (Detective Sergent) who investigated the matter said he obtained statements from the accused in the course of the matter.
Accused statements were tendered in court marked as exhibit B1-12.
He read the accused statements in court to which he said the accused told him that the deceased was his girlfriend and that on the date in question the deceased visited him and slept over at his place and that the allegation against him was not true of him killing his girlfriend.
He said the deceased complained of stiffed neck on the night of the incident, he said the deceased woke him up and complained thereof to which the accused said he gave the deceased some drugs including Dragon as pain killers to aid her stiff neck.
Reading the accused statement further, Detective Sergent said the accused informed him that the deceased slept peacefully after taking the drugs and woke up in the morning complaining of the same problem to which he said he alerted his father and a friend of his.
He said himself, his father and the friend who owned a tricycle (keke) drove the deceased (at the time she was alive) to her house at Congo town.
Furthermore, the statement by the accused he said his father phoned him in the morning hours and informed of the deceased death, to which he spoke to his boss about it and his boss told him to make a report at the Adonkia Police Station at Goderich hence the accused lived at Femi Turner.
He was questioned according to Detective Sergent about how he (the accused) and the deceased met, to which he responded that they met on a WhatsApp group and started talking, when the deceased visited him.
He said that the deceased had only visited him four times and that during these times he seldomly had sex with the deceased.
He further explained that on the night of the incident he did not have sex with the deceased.
Also he informed that when the deceased came to visit him, she was in good health but upon leaving his house complained about stiff neck.
The investigating officer informed the court that the accused upon his inquiry admitted that he is to be blamed for the death of the deceased.
The accused lawyer was absent. State Prosecutor O.V Robbin Mason prosecuting, matter has been adjourned for further hearing. Leaders must sacrifice their gratification to serve others
