By Musa Paul Feika
Fifty years old Ibrahim Bangura has made his first appearance before Magistrate Alhaji Suliaman Koroma at the Ross Road Magistrate Court No.1 for allegedly wounding Yusuf Jawaneh with intent to do him grievous bodily harm.
He is standing trial on three counts charges of wounding with intent, wounding and assault, occasioning actual bodily harm, which are all contrary to Section 20 and 47 of the Offences Against the Persons Act of 1861.
The charges adduce that Ibrahim Bangura, on Friday 27th February this year at Upper Moeba along the Waterloo axis in the Western Rural District of the Republic of Sierra Leone, wounded and assaulted the complainant, Yusuf Jawaneh, in a manner thereby causing him grievous bodily harm.
Led in evidence, Yusuf Jawaneh told court that he recognized the accused as one of his friends and that he could also recall Friday 28th February 2020.
He told the court that, on the day in question, he went to the accused’s residence and asked him to pay him his ten thousand leones (Le 10,000), and, according to him, upon asking the accused a quarrel ensued between them and this resulted into a fight.
He furthered that, during the course of the fight, the accused wounded him with a sharp object.
The witness ended his testimony that he reported the matter to the PWD Police Post, and he was issued with a police medical request form for examination and treatment to the Rokupa Government Hospital, Wellington in Freetown. He said he returned the endorsed medical report to the post.
The accused was yet to be represented and remanded and the matter was adjourned to 30th March 2020.