February 23, 2021
By Hassan Gbassay Koroma
Mohamed Kanu, a personnel of the Sierra Leone Police attached to the Operational Support Division (OSD) has told the Freetown High Court that he was starved and beaten while in detention to admit that he killed a military man.
Kanu, who is before Justice Musu Kamara for the murder of Salifu Turay, further told the court that he was handcuffed and solitarily locked up without food and water for three days.
The accused also told the court that during the course of investigation, the ballistic expert at the Criminal Investigations Department had issued a report which indicates that his raffle was never discharged since it was assigned to him.