On reaching home, PW 1 told her mother that her virgina was paining. On checking, the mother asked her who did it and she said that it was her brother Samba Jallow which she said was a lie. Still under evidence-in-chief, PW 1 said that her aunt and mother went with her to the police where she finally mentioned the name of the accused. She said that the police took her to the Bakau Health Centre where she was subsequently referred to the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital. She was therein examined. That before they went to the hospital the next day, the accused was arrested and put in the cells. PW 1 stated under cross-examination that she did not know the people who took her to the accused’s house but at the time there was nobody in the house. She described the knife as a small one and had a black handle. That the accused was in his house when the police came. Still under cross-examination, PW 1 said that it was the accused who told her not to say anything or else he would kill her. That she could not recall the time when the incident took place. That she was never aware of her father ever threatening the accused if he did not confess. PW 2 MARIAMA MANGA JALLOW. A police woman stationed at Bakau Police Station, testified that she was instructed to escort PW 1 to the Bakau Health Centre and thereafter to the Royal Victoria Hospital where she was examined by a doctor in her presence. That the Doctor said that there were wounds on the girl’s virgina but was treated and discharged. On the 12th day of August, 2002, she went back to the RVTH with PW 1 and her parents and collected the medical certificate which was tendered in evidence, admitted and marked as Exhibit 1. PW 2 was not cross-examined. 3