By Aminata Phidelia Allie
A contractor at the Bintumani Hotel in Freetown has testified as the first prosecution witness in the recent police shooting which left an another police officer, Constable Allieu Fayanday Koroma dead.
Sulaiman Blassey told the Magistrate Court No.2 presided over by Komba Kamanda that he was on his way home on 10 June 2013 when he heard someone threatening to kill “should he be provoked any further”.
This, he said, happened after the youth refused to “buy him alcohol”.
In the company of a friend, PW1 said the accused, Constable Christopher Sheriff Kamara “cocked his gun, ready to shoot”. He said the deceased, who came on a motor bike from the Family Kingdom end of the beach front, stepped forward to dissuade the accused from carrying out his threat.
The witness alleged that the accused told the deceased to stop in his track or get killed.
“He wore civilian clothes but introduced himself as an OSD officer to the accused who refused to listen but went ahead to shoot him in the leg,” PW1 told the court, and added that some young men came to help him off the ground whiles the accused ran into the casino.
He said the accused came out after a while and gave the deceased three more shots which led to his death.
The matter was adjourned to Thursday, June 27
