As Policeman Bags 15-Year Jail Term

A police officer, Charles Mendy, has been caught up by the very instrument that he was expected to safeguard.

The long arm of the law has caught up with Mendy alongside two other Guinean nationals for conspiring to commit a felony. The trio last Wednesday admitted guilt for conspiring to steal D58,550 from Latrikunda Lower Basic School on 22 September 2001.

Mendy was, therefore, awarded a 15-year jail term. His co-confederates in crime, Ebrima Summa and Yusupha Camara, were also awarded similar penalty by magistrate Amina Saho-Ceesay of the Bundung Magistrates’ Court.
Meanwhile before delivering her verdict, magistrate Saho-Ceesay pointed out that she would show no sign of slowing down in administering justice to the breakers of law. She explained that there is a crying need to punish offenders of law as a deterrent to would-be offenders.

Magistrate Saho-Ceesay was apparently disappointed in Mendy for the fact that he betrayed the security agenda that he was supposed to promote and protect at all times and circumstances. It would be recollected that Mendy had served as an orderly to magistrate Mboto. He also served at Serekunda police station before his arrest and subsequent conviction and sentencing.

Prosecutor 489 Jahateh represented the Inspector General of Police in the trial.