By Mohamed Mansaray in Kenema

The High Court in Kenema Presided over by His Lordship, Hon. Justice Abdul Sheriff has on September 28, 2026, sentenced 7 Defendants to 210 years imprisonment on Conspiracy and Murder charged.

Sidie Kandeh, Ibrahim Kamara, Alie Fomba, Musa Kallon, Umaru Rashid, Moses Junior Vandi  and Ibrahim Juana all of Jenneh Town, kandu Leppiama Chiefdom, Kenema District, conspired with unknown individuals to commit a felony and Murdered Abu Bakarr Lolleh on April 27, 2025. All Defendants pleaded guilty to the charges.

To prove it case, the Prosecution led 7 Witnesses. The case for the prosecution was that on the date after a sport meet held by St. Patrick Secondary School, Jenneh Gbando, the Deceased being a teacher at the school, returned to the school field to tidy up. Whilst about living with two other girls around, the Defendant emerged with sticks and other implements. The attacked him (Deceased) and started beating him up and hitting him with sticks all over his body irrespective of the intervention made by one Man to stop them.

The Deceased eventually collapsed and all Defendants ran away from the scene. He was rushed to the Health Centre but was later declared dead shortly afterwards. The Deceased was burried but the body was later examined and postmortem examination was carried out on the remained.

The findings were later recorded and tendered in court by PW 7, the medical doctor.

In his Judgement, Justice Abdul Sheriff considering the guilty verdict returned against the Defendants and the plea in mitigation done on their behalf for the court to temper justice with mercy, all Defendants  were sentenced to terms 30  years Imprisonment each.

Copyright –Published in Expo Times News on Monday, 14th October 2026 (ExpoTimes News – Expo Media Group (expomediasl.com)