{"id":29901,"date":"2011-09-25T10:45:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T14:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=29901"},"modified":"2011-09-25T10:45:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T14:45:59","slug":"sss-iii-pupil-in-court-for-murdering-uncle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=29901","title":{"rendered":"SSS III pupil in court for murdering uncle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">17 year Samuel Thoronka, SSS III pupil of the Prince of Wales Secondary School (POW), and resident at No 48E Old Railway Line Brookfield Freetown Monday 19<sup>th<\/sup> was remanded in custody after pleading guilty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The accused, Samuel Thoronka was before Magistrate Horiton of Court No. 8 on a count charge of murder, contrary to the Offences Against Person\u2019s Act 1861.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The particulars of the offence however state that the accused, on Monday 12<sup>th<\/sup> September, at No 30 Old Railway Line, Brookfield, stabbed his uncle Daniel Kargbo to death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his testimony, Macauley Conteh who doubles as complainant and a relative to both the deceased and the accused said that the accused was on holiday with his uncle (deceased), who happened to be a driver employed by a concern worldwide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He further told the court that the deceased complained that his money was missing and that his nephew (accused) knows about it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The witness said however that the accused confessed using the money to purchase a play station.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cUpon his confession, the deceased was angry with him, and therefore rushed at him and hit him on his eye and cheek,\u201d the witness said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA scuffle ensued between the accused and deceased which later saw the accused gaining possession of a knife he used to stab the uncle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just after hearing testimonies of the witness, the accused was refused bail and remanded in custody at the Juvenile detention facility in Kingtom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The matter was later adjourned to 3<sup>rd<\/sup> October for further hearing.<\/p>\n<p><em>By Mary I. Kamara<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 year Samuel Thoronka, SSS III pupil of the Prince of Wales Secondary School (POW), and resident at No 48E Old Railway Line Brookfield Freetown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[745,1],"tags":[10149,9295,10150],"class_list":["post-29901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-and-entertainment","category-uncategorized","tag-daniel-kargbo","tag-murder","tag-samuel-thoronka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}