Under cross examination, she said it is good for people to tell the truth, and that it will not be good if people tell lies. This was in the night and the bicycle had a blue color, and the accused was wearing a green shirt. Apart from both of them there was no other person around. Testifying for the prosecution as PW4 is one Mariama Kongira fondly referred to by PW2 as Myar. She said one day as she was returning from the market she saw the accused standing with PW2 near a fence. Whilst she was in her compound she heard PW2’s mother saying that PW2 had been taken away. She told her that she saw PW2 with a man standing near the fence but thought they were coming to the house. The man she saw standing with PW2 is the accused. She then took a torchlight to go for PW2, as she went towards where they were standing, she saw PW2 coming towards the road while the accused was standing behind a mango tree. When she asked PW2 where she was coming from, PW2 pointed and said she was coming from under the Mango tree. PW2 said somebody with a bicycle took her there and led PW3 to where the accused was, and when she put on her torchlight she saw the accused there. The accused was taking off his shirt. The accused took a stone and threw at her and wanted to run away. She was with one Fatoumatta Camara. This was after the 7 pm prayers. The accused ran away into a swamp to somebody’s compound. The compound owner took him out and with the help of one man; the accused was taken to the police. Under cross examination she said she is related to PW2 as her cousin. She had never seen the accused before seeing him that day with PW2. She 4

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