JUSTICE KAMARA SENTENCED MAN FOR RECEIVING

By: Sahr J. Bangah

Molai Turay was on 14th January 2020, sentenced to nine months imprison by Justice Unisa Kamara after he was found guilty for receiving stolen properties from a notorious criminal Mohamed Alhaji Jalloh who is on the run. 

According to the State Counsel North, Aruna Jalloh informed the court that the accused was arrested in possession of stolen goods that belong to a complaint Abdul Karim Sesay.

He further disclosed that on the 7th August 2019, thieves entered the complainant house at No 51 Foday Street, Yogomaia section in Kabala,Kionadugu District and carted away properties worth nine million and five hundred thousand Leones and later they went in to thin air, he noted that during police investigation two of the stolen items was discovered in the possession of the accused Molai Turay claiming that the runaway fugitive Mohamed Alhaji Jalloh gave him.

During cross examination, the accused Molai Turay pleaded for mercy but was rejected by the presiding judge on the ground that the action of runaway fugitive and the ways and manner he stole the properties was very felonious and that his court will not compromise such action. 

In his judgment, he said because the accused Molai Turay did not waste the time of the he therefore sentence him to nine months. 

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