By Hassan Gbassay Koroma
The presiding Judge at the January 2021 Criminal Session Call-over, Reginald Fynn, yesterday granted bail to nine accused persons who are standing trial for alleged sexual penetration and have spent over one year at the Freetown Male Correctional Centre.
The January 2021 Criminal Session contained forty (40) cases ranging from murder, wounding with intent, wounding, rubbery larceny, house breaking to sexual penetration. Sexual penetration cases dominated the calendar with seventeen (17) cases.
According to the judge, bail was granted to ensure that the accused persons appear for trial whenever needed by the court, stating that those accused persons have spent more than a year at the Freetown Male Correctional Centre without bail, a situation he said affects the presumption of innocence before proven guilty.