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Thieves appear before High Court master

One Samba Njie was yesterday arraigned before the honourable master of the High Court , Aminata Saho Ceesay, who presided over the Bundung Magistrates Court on behalf of Acting Principal Magistrate Kumba Sillah Camara. According to the particulars of the offence, Samba Njie, on 21 November 2008 at Wellingara, stole a pair of trousers and a T-shirt from the dwelling house of one Samba Jallow. The accused pleaded guilty to the charge. He was granted bail in the sum of D1000 or a Gambian surety...

Fanta thief docked

Amat Njie, an employee of the Group Four Security Services, was yesterday arraigned before Senior Magistrate Abdoulie Mbacke of the Kanifing Magistrates court. He was charged with stealing a crate containing bottles of soft drinks (Fanta) from Gambega Company Limited. When the charge sheet was read to him, he pleaded guilty. Senior Magistrate Abdoulie Mbakeh at that juncture adjourned the case to December 1st for judgment and subsequently sent the accused to remand pending. Inspector Mariama...

Homosexual in court

One Peter Paul Hornberger, a German residing in Senegambia, was on Friday paraded before Magistrate BO Jobe of the Bundung Magistrates Court charged with the indecent assault of an underage boy and committing an unnatural offense.   When the charge sheet was read to him, he pleaded guilty to count one and not guilty to count two. The police prosecutor Corporal 758 Sarr applied for a short adjournment to call his witnesses and proceed on count two. The case was adjourned to Tuesday, 2nd...

Alleged Criminal Trespasser Charged

One DemboJarju of Busumbala recently appeared at the Brikama Magistrates’ Court on acharge of criminal trespass. Accordingto the particulars of the alleged offence, on 16thNovember 2008 at Busumbala, Kombo North Districtin the Western Region the accused unlawfully entered the compound of one IsatouFatty and insulted her. When thecharge sheet was read to him in the language he claims to understand, hepleaded not guilty. Meanwhilethe accused was remanded in custody until the next adjourned date,...

Brothers in Court

Alhagie Kisima Trawally of Busumbala village was last Thursday arraigned before the Brikama Magistrates’ court presided over by Magistrate Pa-Harry Jammeh, on a charge of wilful damage to property contrary to section 312 of the criminal code cap 10 Vol. III laws of The Gambia. Narrating the facts, the prosecuting officer stated that Alhagie Kisima Trawally on or about the 25th 2008 at Busumbala village wilfully and unlawfully damaged the following items: 1 roll cotton valued D3, 000; 2 cotton...

Three Charged With Abduction

OkemmaOckechukhu, alias Prince, Benjamin George and Fatou Sarr were recentlyarraigned before the Bundung Magistrates’ Court presided over by MagistrateAmina Saho charged with abduction. The trioaccording to the particulars of offence on count one are that on or about theyear 2008 at Brusubi and diverse places, the accused persons conspired toconfine and abduct one Abdou Wadane. Count two stated that in the year 2008, inBrusubi and diverse places, the accused persons intended to secretly abduct...

Another cutlass wielder charged

Babucarr Touray, a native of Bakoteh, was on Wednesday arraigned before the Kanifing Magistrates Court for going out late in the night with a cutlass. He was caught by the police at around 3:00 am. When the charge sheet was read to him, he pleaded not guilty. The case was then adjourned.  The accused was granted bail in the sum of D10, 000 with a Gambian surety.

2 youthful fighters convicted

Two youths, Musa Jobarteh and Foday Fatty, were on Monday arraigned before Magistrate BO Jobe of the Bundung Magistrates Court for their involvement in an affray on 9 November 2008 at Wellingara village in Kombo North. They both admitted the charge. The fight, according to the prosecution, resulted from an argument over a lost mobile phone. The court  found the two accused persons guilty. The case was adjourned to 8 December 2008. Magistrate BO Jobe granted them bail in the sum of D1000 with...

Man Pleads Guilty for Damaging KMC Vehicle

One Alagie Jobe, on the 19thNovember 2008,pleaded guilty for damaging a KMC vehicle when he was arraigned before seniorMagistrate Abdoulie Mbackeh of the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court. Inspector Mariama Fatty, who was the prosecuting officer,while narrating the facts of the matter before the court, stated that on the 17thNovember, 2008,at Dippa Kunda, a car numbered KMC 6 was parked by the complainant. She went onto say that the accused gained entry to the car through the glass by...

Wiful Damage Lands man in Trouble

A young man from Kunkujang village, who pleaded guilty forunlawful damage to property, has been fined by the Bundung Magistrates’ Courtin default to go to prison. Edrissa Badjie, a young man living in Kunkujang, Kombo Northappeared before the Sheriff of the High Court Amina Saho-Ceesay standing forMagistrate Kumba Sillah, put the case to the defendant who pleaded guilty. Prosecutor, Cpl. Sambou, reading the facts of the case,said, “On the 3rdAugust 2008 at Kunkujang, Kombo North, WesternRegion,...