By Fatima Kpaka
Magistrate Santigie Bangura of Pademba Road court No3 on Monday, July 17, 2023 remanded Mohamed Lamin Turay for allegedly killing his brother Ibrahim Turay.
The accused is charged with one count of murder contrary to law.
According to the particulars of the offence, the accused on Tuesday, May 16, 2023, at Pyke Street, Off Main Road, Congo Town in Freetown murdered Ibrahim Turay.
The prosecution witness No 1, Detective Police Inspector Kai Sungu Brewa led in evidence by deputy Superintendent of Police Sorie Conteh, recalled on May 16, 2023, when the complaint one Alie Turay and Moses Thomas arrested and brought in the accused at the Congo Cross police station and reported the case of murder against the accused.
Inspector Brewa said the matter was allocated to him for further investigation.
He added that upon receipt of the matter, he obtained statements from complainant and witnesses, separately, adding that on the same date himself and a team of police officers visited the crime scene.
He said at the crime scene, the discovered the deceased lying on the ground in a pool of blood with his mouth widely open, and a knife having blood stain.
The remains of the deceased, he said, was later taken to the Connaught mortuary for postmortem.
The knife, he said, was taken to the station and handed over to the exhibit clerk as exhibit.
On May 18, 2023, the witness said he wrote a request for a postmortem to be conducted on the remains of the deceased, and on May 19, 2023, he witnessed the said postmortem. He said after the examination, a photocopy of the death certificate was handed over to him by the pathologist Dr Semion Owizz Koroma.
The said report was produces and tendered in court.
He said on May 22, 2023, he obtained contemporaneous statement from the accused together with DPC 20032 Samia S F.
He added that on June 23, 2023, he charged the accused with the offence of murder.
The accused who was not represented in court, while cross-examining the witness, said he told him during the investigation that he is a sickly person and he usually behaves abnormally, noting that on the day of the incident he was not himself.
At this stage, the matter was adjourned to July 25, 2023, for further hearing whiles the accused is remanded in prison.