passing, that’s when the accused was trying to pump up his bicycle. At
this point, she ran away and met a lady called Myar Kongira. One Biran
came later and joked with her that if she did not tell him what she was
doing there, he was going to beat her. At this time another girl called
Fatou Sowe pointed a torch at the direction of the accused and they saw
the accused taking off his shirt.
Under cross examination, she said it is good for people to tell the truth. It
was in the night when she saw the man with the bicycle, but she had
never known the accused before. The accused carried her in the front of
his bicycle, but when she was put on the bicycle she did not recognize
anyone around. Biran and Myar only came afterwards. She is sure that it
was the accused who carried her on his bicycle because she had once
seen the accused in a fitter shop where bicycles are repaired. He
recognized him because he was the one who carried her on his bicycle.
She said Myar and Fatou never told her to say this. She knows these facts
herself because Myar took the accused to the Police Station.
Testifying as PW3 is one Binta Sowe an age group of Mariama Sisawo. She
too gave unsworn evidence and was heard in Chambers. She said she
knows the accused and that one evening when PW2 was returning from
buying rice, she was pushed and picked up by the accused. She saw PW2
being taken away on the bicycle by the accused. When she saw this, she
called PW2’s mother, but it was her father who came out and pursued the
accused with his own bicycle.
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