Liberia: Revenge Suspects Demand Freedom

Five persons arrested from among a group of community residents who doused a top policeman with gasoline and set him ablaze in revenge for the murder of another man on Capitol Bye-pass have asked prosecutors to release them if they cannot be tried as charged.

Kwame Akakpo, Aaron Lackay, Nicholas Wleh, Mitchell Davis and Paul Andrews said they have been held in custody without trial since they were arrested over the death of Police Chief Inspector Amos Tutu in 2010.

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