Sierra Leone Judiciary

Justice Manuela A.J. Harding has sentenced 20-year-old Ibrahim Hassan Bangura to life imprisonment for penetrating a 3-year-old boy in his anus. Justice Harding ordered the Accused to pay NLe. 30,000 compensation to the victim. The accused admitted to the...

All People's Congress (APC) Party’s Hon. Member of Parliament who doubles as the Secretary to the ITGC has been ordered forthwith, to return the APC Party Cards' Printing Machine he took from the Party’s IT Room to an unknown...

JUDICIAL WEEK: Supreme Court Judge, Justice Alusine Sesay has granted bail to Umaru Bah popularly known as Sparta who was detained for 15 months for stealing Two Thousand Leones (old notes) Bread. Sparta is among those inmates who were...

AUGUST 10 RIOT: Magistrate Isata Susan Sellu-Tucker of Pademba Road Magistrate's Court No.2 has sentenced 4 accused to 21 months imprisonment each. Accused were before the Court to answer to 2 Counts of Riotious Conduct & Insulting Behaviour contrary...

3 SENTENCED, Unlawful Possession of Kush: Principal Magistrate, His Worship Mark Ngegba has imprisoned Mohamed Osman Bangura, Yeanoh Kargbo and Ibrahim Bangura on various Counts for Unlawful Possession of Kush. 1st and 2nd accused sentenced to 1 year and...

The Resident Magistrate of Mattru Jong Town, Bonthe District, His Worship Magistrate Momoh Lansana has sentenced Saidu Bokina, an Ivorian citizen to 28 days imprisonment for Loitering. Accused Saidu Bokina was apprehended in Mattru Jong on the 26th of October...

Judiciary of Sierra Leone Communications, Main Law Courts Building, Freetown, 18th October 2022: Court of Appeal Judge presiding over cases at the Sexual Offences Model Court in Freetown, Honourable Justice Komba Kamanda has sentenced 30-year-old Labourer, Moseray Kamara to...

Judiciary of Sierra Leone Communications, Main Law Courts Building, Freetown, 17th September 2022: Court of Appeal Judge, Honourable Justice Ansumana Ivan Sesay has sentenced 32-year-old Bike Rider, Joel Salter Williams to twenty (20) years imprisonment after he was found...

The Principal Magistrate of Court No. 1 on Pademba Road in Freetown, Magistrate Mark Ngegba, has on the 5th of October 2022 sentenced four (4) accused persons to twenty-one (21) months imprisonment for various offences. The 1st accused Lamin Kessebeh,...

Judiciary Communications, Court No. 1, Main Law Courts Building in Freetown, 27th September, 2022: Judiciary of Sierra Leone through the Judicial and Legal Training Institute (JLTI), with support from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has organised nationwide professional...