said she thought that the accused was taking PW2 home because many
Fullas come to visit PW2’s father regularly. PW2 did not tell her anything
when she was passing and she did not speak to PW2. She did not speak to
the accused either. It was already dark when she saw them. She
identified the accused and he was wearing a white shirt. The accused was
standing under a small mango tree and she could not possibly recognize
him in that condition. She can not remember the color of his bicycle but
she realized in the police station that the bicycle was rusty.
Under re-examination, she said she looked at the accused carefully and
recognized him very well.
One Fatoumatta Camara, a student testified for the prosecution as PW5.
She first saw the accused when they went looking for PW2 who had been
taken away by the accused. When PW2 heard their voices as they were
looking for her, she came out running. They asked her where she was
coming from and she said pointed at the direction of the accused saying
“the man who took me with a bicycle is over there…” under the mango
tree. They went towards the accused and found that he was wearing a
white shirt. They shouted and the accused began removing his shirt. The
accused threw a stone at them. It was past 7 pm and she could not
recognize the accused. He was arrested by some boys from the compound
he ran into and was taken to the police station immediately thereafter.
Under cross examination she said she was not there when PW2 was taken
away but heard people shouting that someone with as bicycle had taken
PW2 away. They found PW2 in an empty piece of land without a fence,
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