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Defence Counsel not Impressed with Evidence

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Lawyer Assan Martin, defending the four police officers standing trial for aiding the escape of a prisoner, submitted a ‘no case’ submission on the...

More prisoners escape in Madagascar

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/06/content_10613236.htm

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

In a serious of escapes from prisons in the Indian Ocean island country of Madagascar, seven prisoners run away from prison Monday afternoon in...

President - Pardoned Prisoner Caught by the Law Again

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Pa Chaw, who was a prisoner and pardoned by the President of the Republic of The Gambia in observance of the Koriteh feast, was on the...

Stiff Bail Conditions for Dutch National

Picture: Andrew Charles Northfield

Thursday, October 30, 2008

The criminal Division of the Banjul High Court yesterday imposed stiff bail conditions on a Dutch National, Marc Maurice Alfred Vanmaldegum, who was...

Bundung Police escapee jailed

Monday, October 27, 2008

Sambou Badjie, a trial prisoner, was on Tuesday, 21st October, 2008, arraigned before Acting Principal Magistrate Kumba Sillah-Camara of the Bundung...

Escape Prisoner Jailed

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

One Sambou Badjie was on Tuesday convicted and sentenced to one year imprisonment by the Bundung Magistrates’ Court for escaping from lawful custody....

Dutch National Charged for Carnegie Minerals GM Escapes

Picture: Charles Northfield (General Manager of Carnegie Minerals)

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Marc Maurice Alfred Vanmaldegum, a Dutch national, was on Tuesday arraigned before Magistrate Lamin George of the Banjul Magistrates’ Court on a...

Prisoner bemoans his health condition

Monday 30th June 2008 Issue

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

A remand prisoner at the State Central Prison in Banjul recently told the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court that he had been ill for almost three weeks...

Escapee opens defence in voire dire

Thursday, June 05, 2008

Christopher Badjie, an escaped prisoner with five different names, currently facing 22 charges for criminal offences at the Banjul Magistrates Court,...

NIA officer cross examined

Thursday, May 22, 2008

An officer of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), name withheld, was last Tuesday, May 20, cross examined by Antouman Gaye, defense counsel for...