By Lamin Njie
The attorney defending Bubacarr Keita on Thursday asked the high court in Bundung to make sure the rape case of the businessman is taken ‘seriously’.
“My Lord, I think we need to take this matter very seriously. I don’t want to downplay the charge but similarly, we cannot downplay the fact that a person’s life is hanging in the balance. He cannot stand there and give statements,” Lamin S Camara told judge Momodou SM Jallow.
The lawyer made the comments after the senior state lawyer in the case attempted to ‘guide’ a key witness in a trial that has generated national interest.
The case returned on Thursday during which Keita’s ex-wife began answering a question regarding her divorce.
“February 12, 2020 was when my marriage ended in divorce,” the witness testified at one point. She had earlier pushed back at any suggestions of her marriage collapsing on 6 November 2019 by saying she couldn’t remember what happened on that date ‘because as far as I can recall my marriage collapsed in February 2020’.
The resumption of the case on Thursday first saw state attorneys lose their bid to have the court disallow anything that has to do with the witness’s divorce.
