By Lamin Njie
An ex-wife has told the high court in Bundung her sister told her Bubacarr Keita forced himself on her.
The witness who had testified earlier that she was married to the 29-year-old businessman continued with her testimony before Judge Momodou SM Jallow on Monday.
In her Monday testimony, the witness said her sister told her ‘Bubacarr forced and slept with me, that he has been following me for long’.
The witness had earlier sparked protest from the defence lawyer Lamin Camara about her earlier comment that she enquired from her sister about when Bubacarr raped her.
“I then asked her when did Bubacarr rape you?” the witness said while recollecting her one-to-one conversation with her sister at her mother’s house. The defence lawyer quickly rose to protest the statement saying what was on the record was impregnation and not rape.
Intervening, the judge asked the prosecuting attorney to advise her witness to stick to what was on the court record.
“My Lord, she’s explaining what her sister told her,” the prosecuting lawyer reacted.
“He’s (prosecuting attorney) speaking as if he was there and he was not,” Keita’s veteran lawyer Camara fired back.
The judge advised that the witness sticks to what was on the record to avoid making things complicated. He also suggested that the witness speaks in English as it appeared she was good in it but her lawyer said she would continue to give her testimony in Wolof.
In continuing, the witness said she asked her sister when Bubacarr forced her to sleep with her and her sister told her it was since after the Koriteh prayers in 2019.
“Then I told her she wasn’t speaking the truth because from June to that time would have been five months and since her stomach did not show clear signs of pregnancy was unbelievable,” the witness said.
She added: “I then told her I will take her to the hospital for confirmation. That’s how I took her to the hospital at family planning at Westfield. [And] when I took her to the hospital, I met a Dr called Dr Daffeh.”
The witness had earlier detailed she was shocked when her mom told her her sister was pregnant and the person who impregnated her.
“I was shocked. When I got to the house, I sat with her (sister) face to face and asked her to tell me the truth for God’s sake. She told me it’s true,” she testified.
The witness had on Monday begin her testimony by clarifying her previous statement to the court that she knew her sister was pregnant before she even went to the hospital.
“What I meant with (statement) ‘my sister was pregnant before we went to the hospital’ is that my mom called me while I was exchanging text messages with my ex-husband and told me *T was pregnant. [And she told me] ‘Because I (mother) have checked her and I have experience about pregnant women and found her to be pregnant’,” the witness said.
She said she then told her mother that was impossible because “*T cannot be pregnant because she was a child’.
The case continues on Tuesday.
