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Liberia: 15-Man Jury Set-Up for Chinese Murder Case
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The Inquirer (Monrovia)
16 May 2008
Posted to the web 16 May 2008
C. Winnie Saywah
The trial of murder suspect, Mohammed Konneh, has resurfaced in the May Term of Court with the setting up of a 15-member jury to begin hearing testimonies and perusing documents relating to the murder of the Chinese expert, Princess Tiang Chong Yu at the Monrovia Vocational Training Center (MVTC).
Criminal Court 'A' Judge Peter Gbeneweleh who began hearings into the case yesterday with both defense lawyers and prosecuting attorneys present, requested the reading of the medical report pertaining to the accused since the case had been tabled almost a year due to information that the accused was insane.
Mohammed who is said to be an ex-fighter of the defunct LURD group allegedly murdered Princess Tang, a Chinese instructor of the Bamboo Weaving class on July 14, 2007. According to court records, Princess Tang was stabbed with a silver knife and died after a period of profuse bleeding.
Meanwhile the trial is to begin next Tuesday at which time the two medical doctors from the John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital who performed the medical examination on Mohammed would be made to appear to testify to his medical report.
According to the medical report read in court yesterday, the doctors after accepting that the accused has some disorder problems, request that he be allowed out of prison in order to observe his mental status for some six months but said that the request was questioned by the prosecuting attorney who pleaded with Judge Gbeneweleh to have them appear in court.
Still at the court, rape, a crime against the state, is at the highest peak in Liberia as eight out of every ten cases heard at the Temple of Justice seek justice for rape victims.
The gravest reflection of said heartless crime is that it is being perpetrated on minors or children between age five and twelve while the alleged perpetrators are vehemently denying the allegations.
Just yesterday alone, out of the five cases attended to, three were issues of rape with a scene of huge crowd of Liberians who stormed the premises of the Temple of Justice in pursuit of justice for victims of such a crime.
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