At the time of writing this story, a 23-year-old Sinchu Alagi girl was still in custody at Wellingara police station and will soon undergo trial for assault, occasioning actual bodily harm.

Fatou Bah is awaiting trial after her arrest by the police in Wellingara for lacerating one Isatou Jallow with a razor blade.

The case was mentioned at the Bundung Magistrates’ Court on Monday but thanks to the prosecution’s failure to carry out its homework it had to be deferred until March 10th.

According to the charge sheet prepared by the police, Fatou Bah had used a razor blade to stab her victim but Magistrate Kumba Sillah-Janneh, presiding, elucidated that it is incomprehensible for one to use a razor blade to stab.  After this assertion, she ordered the prosecution to go back to the drawing board and reconstruct its case.  Magistrate Sillah-Janneh went on to point out that without a properly composed charge sheet, the medical certificate issued to Ms. Jallow and the statement of the accused could not be admitted as pieces of evidence.

Fatou Bah, who maintains her innocence, could in the meantime gain her liberty in the sum of D5000 with a surety in the like sum. The surety must also be a holder of a Gambian identity card.