7 RESORT LTD (2002-2008) 1 GLR, 1), it is for this reason that I will believe the evidence of the accused that there were plans in the village to frame him up and this I shall hold as a fact. It is also for this reason that I will attach little weight to the evidence of PW2. Even if, I were to believe the evidence of PW2 that the accused locked the door with the prosecutrix inside for long hours, there is no reason why he failed to raise an alarm taking his subsequent interest in the matter, the age of the prosecutrix and the fact that he suspected some wrong doing. These are additional reasons why I will treat the evidence of PW2 with caution. While the evidence of sexual inactiveness was not supported by any medical report, the expert evidence in THE STATE v. SALIFU NJIE (supra) confirms that the RVTH does not have the facilities to properly assess the erectile function of a man. The documentary evidence tendered by the prosecution contradicts the testimony of the prosecutrix in an important way. When I put together the entire evidence of the prosecution, and when I consider the fact that there is no corroborating evidence direct or circumstantial tending to support the testimony of the prosecutrix of an unlawful carnal knowledge of her by the accused, and when I further consider the fact that the accused gave unchallenged evidence of a plot in the village to frame him up, a cloud of doubts besets my mind whether in the circumstances of this case, the accused could be said to have raped the prosecutrix. The net effect of the foregoing is that I have strong doubts in

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