By Saio Marrah
A police prosecution witness has testified at a Freetown Magistrate’s Court that the two accused persons in an on-going store breaking and larceny case Steven Sesay and Saio Marrah removed the zinc from the roof of a store in Waterloo and gained entrance to the building.
Detective constable Mustapha Santigie Kamara who was testifying before Principal Magistrate, Mark Ngegba, on Monday 31st July 2023 said they discovered the act when they visited the crime scene on the 10th February this year at Three Mile, Waterloo and they took photos of the scene.
The witness, who is attached to the Store breaking Unit of the CID headquarters in Freetown, told the court that they visited the crime scene after the complainant and the two accused persons made statements to them.
According to him, the case file and enquiry was allocated to him from the regional office in East of Freetown for further investigation and that they were handed over to him together with a digital camera and other items with the two accused.
Sesay, the first accused aged 23, is a resident of Waterloo and a caretaker at the store owned by the complainant, Fatima Kanu, while the second accused, Marrah age 24 and a resident of Three Mile in Waterloo was a worker at the building site of the same complainant.
The total cost of the stolen goods is estimated at One million two hundred and five thousand three hundred and forty-four NLe 1,205, 344.
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