June 3, 2021
By Yusufu S. Bangura
After they had spent one year six months in prison, four accused persons, Salieu Dominic Conteh, Shaka Kamara, Santigie Bangura and Saidu Bangura, were on Tuesday discharged by Justice Ivan Ansumana Sesay, presiding at the Siaka Steven High Court in Freetown, for want of prosecution.
The four accused persons were initially before the judge on one count of murder contrary to the Laws of Sierra Leone, but the charge was later reduced to manslaughter.
It was alleged that the accused persons on Thursday 25
th April, 2019, in Freetown, murdered one Abu Sesay.
The accused persons were represented by Lawyer Ibrahim Tommy.