Abdul Kpaka, who is testifying in his own defence at his ongoing murder trial over the death of his late girlfriend Sia Kamara has read email messages generated from his phone in which the deceased, Sia Kamara’s health issue was highlighted in court.

This came after Justice Alfred Ganda on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, allowed lead defence lawyer Teddy Koroma Esq to examine the LL1 to 45 exhibits, a document tendered as evidence for the defence.

The defence presented a series of messages from the late Sia Kamara, contained in Exhibit LL1–45, to illustrate what they referred to as her deteriorating health condition prior to her death.

According to lawyer Koroma, they categorized the messages into four sets, including health.

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However, state prosecutor Yusuf Sesay objected to the tendering of email screenshots, questioning whether the witness was the proper person to authenticate the messages but justice Ganda ruled that the document can be tendered while the court wait for an IT specialist to tender the phone with respect to making progress with the case.

Lawyer Sesay argued that only an IT specialist can confirm the origin of the emails, stressing that “it is the IT person that should come and tell the court that I generated the messages from the account of the defendant.” The witness, however, maintained that the screenshots were taken from his own Gmail account, [email protected], after receiving permission from the judge.

The witness was asked by the defence to read aloud several pages of the exhibit, which included personal messages Sia had sent to him between 2019 and 2020.

On Page 4 dated July 11, 2019, the defendant read what he said Sia wrote to him: “I cannot sleep, my heart. I cannot breathe,” accompanied by a crying emoji. The following day page 5 dated July 12, 2019, she repeated: “I cannot sleep, Kpaka. I cannot breathe properly,” again with a crying emoji. The defendant said that the email messages were screenshots from his email account.

The State also countered that the witness was narrating facts outside the scope of the evidence already before the court, noting that the screenshots were not part of exhibits LL1 to 45 previously tendered. The prosecutor emphasized that no phone or flash drive accompanied those exhibits, raising doubts about whether the screenshots were genuine byproducts of the defendant’s mobile phone.

Reading on page 6 dated July 14, 2019, Kpaka cited Sia saying: “Abdul Kpaka I cried begging you. I almost lost my life. My blood pressure went up. I am actually dying, you know.”

Later entries revealed worsening symptoms such as on page 8 dated September 30, 2019, where she complained of swollen feet and being ignored. “I reached out to you and you ignored me.”

The defendant continued to read email messages on page 6 and 11 to describe her alleged state of helplessness: “Life is so short and I do not know what is next. I wish I can send VN to hear my broken voice.”

By March 28, 2020 on page 12, the defendant read another email message alleged to be Sia’s, stating: “Kpaka, I am telling you that I am dying. My health and everything, and you are not even concerned… My blood pressure is really up. I am weak and my heart pounding while breathing is getting difficult.”

On November 5, 2020 page 21, it was stated that she spent an entire day in hospital due to dangerously high blood pressure. A disputed Page 22 message claimed she felt weak and dizzy after taking prescribed medicine, but the state objected to its authenticity, noting inconsistencies in font size, date and source.

On page 23 dated November 6, 2020, Sia expressed shame over Kpaka’s father intervening on her behalf because Kpaka did not forgive her. Other contested pages, including page 26 and photos of a hand on pages 27–29, were challenged by the prosecution, with the judge ruling that only the IT specialist could verify their authenticity.

The court adjourned to consider the contested pages and photographs, as well as the defence being ready to give reasons why the defendant did not respond to late Sia’s messages.

The trial continues on July 8, 2026.