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In his final address to the Court in the conclusive stage of a murder trial, Principal State Counsel, Gerald J. Soyei Esq. last Friday told High Court No. 1, where Hon. Justice Ademosun is presiding that the accused person, Fatmata Baby Kamara, with criminal intent, planned to kill her victim, 51 years old Josephine Binti Songo.
Citing the evidence of two witnesses of fact, PW1 Fatmata Kamara and PW2 Esther Kamara, Mr. Soyei said that in the afternoon of 1st November, 2009, a row erupted between the accused person and the deceased.
"During that row, the accused person repeatedly used invectives against her victim," Mr.Soyei told the hushed court. He told the court that the accused told the deceased for a long time she had been looking out for her and that now that she had found her was the time to react.
"This establishes malice," Mr. Soyei said "one of the ingredients that must be present to prove guilt in a murder trial". Mr. Soyei described the force Fatmata employed to push her victim to the ground as 'massive degree of illegality of the force itself".
The court heard that as soon as the poor woman fell, blood oozed profusely from her nostrils.
Turning to the 12-man jury, Mr. Soyei told them to imagine the state of mind of a person who will be so aggressive as to push another human being with such massive force that when she fell, she led to death.
Mr. Soyei told the court that the Pathologist's report showed clearly that it was as a result of that beating that the deceased, who is said by neighbours to be full of life and bubbly before her death, lost her precious life.
The report itself showed that the deceased died as a result of massive hemorrhage to the head, fractured ribs, ruptured spleen and fatal close head injury.
The accused is expected to face the death penalty if she is found guilty.
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