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Oley Sey Criminal Trial Continues

The criminal trial of Oley Sey, former nominated member ofthe National Assembly, and Abdou Rahman Bah, co-ordinator of SulaymanJunkungJammehMemorialNursery Schoolin Abuko, continued yesterday at the Banjul Magistrates’ Court beforeMagistrate Lamin George. The duo is being alleged to have conspired and stolen thesum of D500,000 being money meant for said Nursery School. Continuing his testimony, the 2ndaccused Abdou Rahman Bah told the court on 4thAugust 2008he was called by the KMC Mayor to...

Assistant Station Officer Testifies in Court

The Assistant Station Officer of the Bundung Police StationYaya Bah has on Monday 27thOctober 2008 testify inthe on going trial of the Four police officers Namory Lamin Jammeh SissawoBadjie Sheikh Sowe and Dawda Jallow, who were charge for aiding prisoners toescape on the 11thday of September 2008. PW1 .Yaya Bah toldthe court that while on his way to the police station he received a phone callfrom his boss, informing him that the trial prisoners had escaped from a lawfulcell. According to...

Nianija NAM Trial Deferred

The on-going drug trial involving the former National Assembly member for Nianija constituency, Hon Dawda Manneh, and his co accused Demba Baldeh, continues on Thursday 16 October 2008 at the Banjul Magistrates’ Court before principal magistrate, Edrissa Mbai. On the resumption of the trial Momodou Jobe, a police prosecutor from the NDEA, holding brief for the State applied for the case to be stood down. The application was granted. However Mrs Marie Wood, State Counsel, later informed the...

Cattle Rustler Jailed

StartFragment One Abdoulie Faye of Lamin village was recently given a custodial sentence of three months with hard labour by Magistrate Pa Harry Jammeh of the Brikama Magistrates’ Court for cattle rustling. According to facts of the case as narrated by the police prosecutor Sgt Camara, the theft happened on 1st September 2008 when the complainant Hawa Jallow brought her ram in the morning for grazing. He revealed that when she returned to the grazing spot in the evening the ram was nowhere to...

Ex-Foreign Affairs Officials Trial Resumes

The trial of Bai Ousman Secka and Muhammed Batata S. Juwara, former senior civil servants at the Department of State for Foreign Affairs, resumed yesterday at the Banjul Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Lamin George. Testifying under cross-examination by the defence counsels, PW1 Lamin Bojang told the court that there were two Permanent Secretaries at the Department of State for f Foreign Affairs at the time Isatou Njie applied for her annual leave. He said they were William John Joof and...

Ex-GCAA Accountant’s D4m Trial Resumes

The D4million trial of the Ex-Gambia Civil Aviation Authority Accountant Mr. Lamin Njie resumed on Monday 15th September 2008 at the Brikama Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Pa Harry Jammeh. However despite the presence of the accused person and the police prosecutor the case could not proceed thanks to the absence of the defence Counsel, Borry Touray. It could be recalled that the accused Lamin Njie is standing trial on a charge of stealing, which he denied. According to the charge sheet,...

Defilement Trial Continues

The defilement trial involving one Musa Ceesay continued at the Bundung Magistrates’ Court presided over by Magistrate Kumba Sillah-Camara. Testifying, Pw2 Kaddy Drammeh told the court that on the day in question she sent the victim to the shop to buy jumbo and on her return she observed that something unusual had happened to the victim. She said she enquired from the victim and the victim told her that she was raped by the accused, adding that it was then she explained to the victim’s mother...

Youth Jailed For Criminal Trespass

Magistrate John Njie of the Brikama Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday convicted and sentenced one Babucarr Sallah to thirty months imprisonment for the offence of criminal trespass and assault causing actual bodily harm. According to the particulars of the offence, some time this year, the convict unlawfully entered the premises of the complainant Fatou Kambai and assaulted her. Following a lengthy trial he was found guilty and sentenced on Count One to 18 months imprisonment and on Count Two to...

Fake Dalasi Case Resumes

The trial of one Abdou Kudus Jobe, a Senegalese national whowas charged with being in possession of fake Gambian Currency, resumed recentlyat the Bundung Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Kumba Sillah-Camara.In his testimony, police prosecutor Foday Saidykhan told thecourt on 17thDecember 2007, he was on duty at the SerekundaPolice Station when the accused was brought together with the fake Gambiancurrency. He added that he cautioned the accused before obtaining hiscautionary statement....

Daily Observer Reporter to Testify in Murder Trial

Mr. Musa Ndow, a reporter with the Daily Observer newspaper, is expected to testify in the murder trial of Sheriff Minteh. The hearing will take place on 29 July 2008. Mr Ndow’s appearance before the court was necessitated by Defence Counsel Lamin Camara’s wish uttered in court last Monday that he intended to call Musa Ndow to testify because of a story he wrote on the accused published on 11 May 2007. The trial has been adjourned on many occasions due to lack of witnesses.