Gambia: Basse High Court Adjourns Rape Trial to December Sitting

27 November 2017

Basse High Court presided over by Justice Simeon A. Abi on 23 November 2017, adjourned the criminal trial involving Nuha Dampha, who was charged with the offence of rape to December sitting.

The allegation against the accused is that on 29 March 2016, at Tinkinto village in the Upper River Region, he intentionally and under coercive circumstances had carnal knowledge of a dumb girl.

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