A student, James Freeman, is facing charges of fraudulent conversion after his own brother testified against him in court. Freeman appeared before Magistrate Santigie Bangura at Pademba Road Court No....
A 19-year-old, Emma Morlia Sesay, has been remanded to the female correctional center in Freetown after Magistrate Santigie Bangura ruled on February 12, 2025, that she should remain in custody while facing...
Three men, including a radio station manager, were remanded in custody on Monday in connection with the murder of journalist Samuel Brima Mattia. The accused, Joseph Mendel Lamin, a 37-year-old journalist...
Hawanatu Hawa Koroma has appeared before Magistrate Santigie Bangura at Pademba Road Court No. 1 on February 10, 2025, in continuation of the charge of the murder of her husband, Nabieu Bangura. The prosecution...
Magistrate Sahr Kekura has sent Labourer Ibrahim Koroma on remand at the Pademba Road Male Correctional Centre for mobile phone theft and larceny. Koroma made his first appearance at Pademba Road Magistrate...
A police investigator has testified in court against Emma Morlia Sesay, who stands accused of stealing a one-week, five-day-old baby boy. The case was heard before Magistrate Santigie Bangura at Pademba...
A Freetown businessman, Mohamed Santigie Fofanah, has been sentenced to four years in prison after being convicted of defrauding his friend of $178,015 in a fake overseas travel scheme. The 36-year-old...
The Senior Accountant at West Africa Operations and Management Company (WAOMC), Lamin Tarawallay, has been remanded at Pademba Road Prison in Freetown. Magistrate Sahr Kekura ordered his detention on Wednesday,...
In a troubling incident, Reverend John Binneh Conteh of the Living Stone Evangelical Ministry in Makeni found himself embroiled in a legal battle on Wednesday, January 15th, 2025. Conteh was accused of...
John Binneh Conteh, a pastor from the Living Stone Evangelical Ministry in Makeni has been arrested and arraigned before the Pademba Road Magistrate Court on allegations of fraud. Awoko reports that...
