MONROVIA, LIBERIA-A twenty-four-year-old-man has been sent to the Monrovia Central Prison for allegedly killing Albertha Paye in the Doe Community area on January 2, last year.
During police investigation, it was established that suspect Bill Sonkarlay engaged in an altercation with the deceased at her mother’s place, carrying with him a stick that he did not use.
Eyewitnesses told police investigators that the suspect went to complain to the deceased mother, Marthaline Paye, concerning the attitude of her daughter towards him and his girlfriend, accusing him of being a drug user, which angered him.
It was further revealed that after failing to calm her daughter, the mother backed off stating that her daughter was a grown-up woman who never took advice, and they should continue with whatever they were doing.
The victim, according to her neighbors, had a sickle cell problem. From the altercation, there were bloodstains on her head and body and was pronounced dead on arrival by health workers at the Redemption Hospital in the Point-Four Community.
Meanwhile, Suspect Bill Sonkarlay has been charged with manslaughter, which is a violation of Chapter 14, Section 14.2 of the Revised Penal Law of Liberia.
Still at the court, a Nigerian National, George Obi, alias ‘Original Japan’, and four others have been adjudged guilty by Criminal Court ‘C’ at the Temple of Justice.
In his ruling, Judge Blamo Dixon, January 28, 2025, said:” Evidence adduced in court by prosecuting lawyers, was convincing to convict defendant George Obi for having drugs.”
However, Judge Dixon’s decision has acquitted four other defendants who were indicted along with ‘Japan’ on grounds, that pieces of evidence were insufficient to link them to the crime.
The convicted defendants’ lawyer too an exception to Judge Dixon’s verdict, awaiting his final judgment before announcing an appeal to the Supreme Court to overturn the lower court’s decision.
The street value of the drugs is put at over thirty thousand US dollars, which is equivalent to six million Liberian dollars.