Preface

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with my wife, they have three children one passed away. I really was tired
what the defendant was doing to me, I do not have access to my wife
because of him my children have it very difficult to even speak in the mix of
their companion, I feel very bad when I see my children without their
mother. I only want justice to reveal between us this is all what I have to say
in this honourable court."
2. Page 14 of the record of proceedings under Judgment where the lower court
remarked thus: ‘’The defendant Mamadou Yahya Kanteh was summoned by
Yorro Camara for taken away of his legal wife Mariama Camara without his
knowledge’’
3. A plea for mitigation of punishment (allocution or allocutor) which was
made by the defendant at page 13 of the record as follows: "I am betaking
for marry from court because I am a family man with a wife and
children····",
4. The reaction of the lower court thus: "court heard your mitigation with lots
of misunderstanding but your act of····taken away a married woman without
the knowledge of the husband is a big offence which this court will not sit
down to look people like you during it without taking legal action against it"
5. The observation of the lower court at page 14 paragraph 3 of the record of
proceedings:
‘’For offence against customary law, district tribunal may subject to the
provisions of this act, impose a five or many order imprisonment with or
without hard labour or both fine and imprisonment, or many inflict any
punishment authorized by customary law’’ at which point the court
proceeded to convict and sentence the defendant.