Kailahun Court Sends Two Men to Prison for Life and 20 Years Over Murder Charges

At the High Court sitting in Kailahun Town, Luawa Chiefdom, Kailahun District, the Presiding Judge, Hon. Justice Abdul Sheriff, has sentenced two men one to life imprisonment and the other to 20 years imprisonment after finding them guilty of separate murder charges.

Bobor Sahr, of Kwekor Village in the Kissy Tongi Chiefdom, was found guilty of murdering Fallah Kongor on 21 December 2024 at Yengema Road, Kwekor Village.

According to Daniel P. Mansaray, State Counsel and Customary Law Officer in Kailahun District, Sahr fatally attacked the deceased during an altercation. His defence counsel, Samuel S. Pessima Esq. from the Legal Aid Board, pleaded for leniency on behalf of the convict, but Justice Sheriff sentenced him to life imprisonment.

In a separate case, Fallah Mingie, of Lalehun Village in Penguia Chiefdom, was also convicted of murder and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment.

According to the prosecution, led by Daniel P. Mansaray, the convict murdered his wife, Yawa Fallah Mingie, on 4 February 2025 at Lalehun Village. In his plea mitigation, Mingie told the court that his wife, who sold pepper soup, returned home around 1:00 a.m. on the night of the incident. He said a quarrel broke out between them, during which he chased her, and she accidentally fell into a hole and died.

Despite the plea by defence counsel Samuel S. Pessima, Justice Sheriff found Mingie guilty and imposed a 20-year prison sentence.