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KONTA MURDER TRAIL CONTINUES TODAY

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson - (AR-Wilson)

Magistrate Peter Gogra is expected to sits on a murder trial today involving two accused persons, Yusif Kamara AKA (Level) and Alie Simeon Kamara and determines the merit and demerit wither to committal it, to high court or not, based upon evidence produced during the trial.

According to an eye witness, Osman Muntha Kargbo, informed the jam-packed court that on 12th August 2019 at Konta Village in the Konta Bai Sheray Chiefdom in the Bombali District, Northern Province of Sierra Leone.

He saw the first accused Yusif Kamara grabbed the deceased Mohamed Kamara during a bitter argument that ensued between them for a missing mobile phone.

He continued that the decease Mohamed Kamara orally accused his younger brother Yusif Kamara for clandestinely taking away his mobile phone without his consent; he noted that during the process both the accused and the decease scolded each other.

He revealed that frantic efforts were made by family members including him to separate them but to no avail and later he saw the accused Yusif Kamara knocked the deceased on his eye and later saw blood oozing from his eyes which prompted him to go straightly and informed elders of the village.

He further explained that after he has explained all what he saw that transpired between the deceased and the accused, he saw the accused Yusif Kamara materialized with blood all over his cloth to make his own report while the deceased Mohamed Kamara was in critical condition fighting between life and death.

He noted, after a while, the deceased Mohamed Kamara was immediately rushed to the, Makeni government hospital where he passed away. Post-Morten result reads that the deceased sustained fracture of the head including one of his eye eruption.    

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