One Saidou M Cham, on Tuesday, appeared before the Bundung Magistrates Court for attempting to murder one  Samba Bah of Bijilo Village. It was exactly 1400 hours on February 24 2008, when Samba Bah left his house for a shop to buy cigarette.

On his way to the shop he met the accused, Saidou M Cham standing with  a friend, along the road. But on his way back from the shop Saidou M Cham attacked him with a cutlass and chopped off some parts of his body.

Saidou first chopped the right arm of his victim as he struggled in defense,  he axed his left arm for about three times. As Samba attempted to run for his dear life, his attacker   chopped off his two fingers.

It was a passer-by PIU officer that saw this brutal incidentce who came to the rescue of Samba Bah. He arrested the two men and took them to Kotu Police Station. The duo was escorted to Bijilo Health Centre where the victim was treated and later referred to the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital (RVTH), in Banjul, and admitted. The accused was returned back to the Kotu Police Station where cautionary statement was taken from him. He did confess to the police that he had slaced the complainant with a cutlass.

Before Magistrate Kumba Sillah Camara who presided over the case, the accused pleaded not guilty to the offence and said he had no objection to the cautionary statement marked as exhibit.

The case was therefore adjourned to 16 July 2008 for prosecution to open his case. Corporal 758 Sarr represented the IGP