Skye Bank Murder: “Blood and Froth Were Oozing From the Mouth of the Deceased and She Was Not Breathing” – PW 2 Tells Court

PW2, August Kamara, a nurse at Shuman hospital, Pultney Street, Freetown, in the alleged murder inquiry into the death of Sinnah Kai Kargbo a former maketer at Skye Bank, told Court 1 Pademba Road where Senior Magistrate Marke Ngegba sits, that she was attending to a patient in the early hours of the 16th October, 2022 when a receptionist at the hospital alerted her that an emergency case that needed blood had been brought in.

She said that she left the patient she was attending to and quickly prepared a tray containing medical equipment including a BP machine and other necessaries.

As she was upstairs and the emergency case was downstairs, she quickly ran downstairs to offer emergency treatment.

“I held my brake, ” she told the court. “When I saw the said emergency case and I chose not to touch her but rather requested for the intervention of a doctor. Blood and froth were oozing from her mouth and she wasn’t breathing.”

Nurse Kamara instructed a potter at the hospital to bring in a stretcher where the corpse was laid.

Thinking that the patient could be resuscitated, she rushed to prepare a bed for her.

On her way, she met the suspected murderer, Ikubolaje Nicol alias Bola General Manager of Skye Bank who was begging: “Ay me, una ep me.”

Nurse Kamara said that when she inquired from the suspected murderer, Bola, he lied to her that they came from a nightclub around 2am but when she asked the suspected murderer why it took that long to take his victim to the hospital, Bola never responded but rather continued begging them to help him.

The emergency case was taken to the ICU upstairs where the doctor who examined her said that the emergency case was already dead before she was brought to the hospital.

Bola, the suspected murderer was to surface at the ICU and asked if his victim was dead and as soon as he was told she was dead, he fled.

The doctor asked for Bola but he was nowhere to be found.

The two men who accompanied Bola with the corpse told the doctor that they didn’t know the whereabout of the suspected murderer, Ikubolaje Nicol the suspected killer.

When Bola was called on the phone number he gave to the hospital, the witness said he told them he was coming for the corpse later.

Since the two men who accompanied the corpse along with the suspected murderer, Bola, were denying their connection with Bola, Nurse Kamara and her colleagues insisted that they go back with their body.

They then placed the body at the back of the vehicle.

Upon cross-examination by lawyer for the suspected murderer, Mr Rowland Wright, PW2 stood her ground and told the court that she never looked at the patient while it was in the car for between 2 and 3 minutes and that she never examined it after it was brought inside the hospital.

Preliminary investigation continues. If there is a prima facie case to be answered, the suspected murderer will be committed to the High Court for full trial.