The accused, Yugo (Gorgi) Sowe, has been charged with five counts of attempted murder, assault causing grievous bodily harm, intentional harm, wounding, and domestic violence.
When the case was called, state counsel, A. Gibba, called the 2nd prosecution witness, Omar Drammeh, a police officer and a member of the patrol team of the Anti-Crime Unit, who testified that he retrieved items from the accused’s second wife’s house.
The witness testified that when they recovered the cutlass, ‘kaftan’ and a shirt in the house of the second wife, they then asked the 2nd wife about the owner of those materials and she confirmed that they were her husband’s property.
According to the witness, the accused’s second wife was questioned about where her husband had spent the night when the incident happened; and she responded that the husband spent the night with her.
The witness also told the court that the 2nd wife told him that when she and her husband went to bed, the husband told her that he was going to use the gent but did not come back for more than an hour. She added that she fell asleep.
He stated that the mattress and the bedsheets were recovered from the victim’s house because they found the complainant at home and was wrapped and taken to hospital.
The witness recalled that on 16 November 2023 while on patrol around Jabang, he received a telephone call from one Sheriffo Camara informing him that at Jalambang, an old woman was attacked by armed robbers and they needed police intervention.
The witness further explained that he rushed to the scene with his patrol team and upon arrival; the witness said a man approached and told him that he was the complainant’s husband.
The witness said he then invited the husband for questioning and the husband told him that he was sleeping at his second wife’s house and someone knocked on his door and informed that his wife was attacked by armed robbers; and he, the husband, was afraid to enter the house of the complainant. That was why he stood outside.
The witness narrated that he instructed his team to invite the husband, while he proceeded to the victim’s house. He added that he heard the complainant shouting and speaking in Fula language, but he (witness) said he did not understand what the victim was saying. However, he said, one of his men interpreted to him that the complainant was saying her husband chopped her hands and legs with a cutlass.
He continued that he was not sure what the victim was saying and he called the husband in the house to face the complainant, adding that she (the wife) was repeatedly saying the husband did that to her.
“That was the time I instructed my men to arrest the husband.”
The case was adjourned until 20 May 2024.
