By Abass Jalloh
Magistrate Isata Sellu-Tucker of Pademba Road Court No. 2 in Freetown has remanded Alicious Deen Tarawalie alias “Arata” for allegedly robbing Carlton Bull of a Samsung J4+ android mobile phone valued two million five hundred thousand Leones (OLe 2,500,000).
Yesterday September 12, Tarawallie appeared before the court on one count charge of Robbery with Aggravation.
Court record says Tarawallie on Thursday 1st September 2022 at Beach Road, Lumley, Freetown, being armed with a knife, robbed Bull, the complainant.
In his court testimony, Bull said he is a high school student living at Lumley and that he came to know Tarawallie only through the matter.
He said at around 9 p.m. he was trying to lock his shop, using his mobile phone’s torch light when Tarawallie emerged and forcefully took his phone. I shouted but no one came to my rescue. I asked him for my phone but he pulled out a knife and threatened me to give him 100 Leones.”
The complainant said he later went to call one man named Mohamed Kamara to help him, but the man was unable to do that.
Bull however used Kamara’s phone to call his dad in a bid to plead with the accused but the accused refused to talk to anyone. He said his dad told him to report to the police, which he did.
Bull said: “On Friday my dad came to town and went to the car wash area and located him (accused), putting on combat fatigues.”
During cross-examination, the accused, who was without legal representation, asked the complainant where they “exactly met” and they if they saw each other, and the accused told the court that they met.
The accused questioned how he would rob the complainant and still be there while he went to call someone else for help.
Prosecutor Bona did no re-examination, and Magistrate Sellu-Tucker sent the accused back to prison. The matter continues on the 21st of September 2022.
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