Man Sentenced to  12 months in Prison for Beating Grandmother

By Alimatu Jalloh

Judiciary Communications, , Freetown,11th November, 2022:*

His Worship Magistrate Hadiru Daboh  of the  Ross Road Magistrate Court No. 3 has sentenced Ibrahim Bangura popularly known as SLA to one year in prison for flogging his own grandmother, Mama Rita Bainda.

The accused was standing trial on one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm contrary to Section 47 of the Offences Against the Persons Act 1861,

The particulars of offence state that on Tuesday, May 31, 2022, at No. 58 Wright Street, Wellington, Freetown in the Freetown assaulted Rita Bainda in a manner thereby occasioning her Actual Bodily Harm

 According to Magistrate Hadiru Daboh, “His [accused] conduct of flogging his grandmother is immoral, thus making it more unlawful to warrant the maximum jail term of one year for the offence as in the Act.”

The matter was prosecuted by Assistant Superintendent of Police J. Bangura.