Magistrate Buba Jawo of the Bundung Magistrates’ Court recently sentenced Lamin Kanyi and Sheriff Touray of Tallinding to serve eight months in jail after being found guilty of assault and battery.

Lamin and Sheriff were, though left with an alternative of paying a D4000 court fine each. They were also ordered to pay a compensation of D1000 to their victim.

According to the details of the case, the duo was among a group of boys who assaulted one Lamin Sanneh in April of this year in Tallinding by beating him all over his body and, as a result, caused him actual bodily harm.