The prosecution led by Principal State Counsel S.H. Barkun called on the victim who testified that on the day of the incident, she was sent by her ageing  mother to go and sell some cooked mangoes, and when she arrived at the market, she was accosted by the accused who asked her to go  with him to his compound  that he was going to buy some mangoes from her.

The victim said when she arrived at the accused person's compound, she was asked into his house and as she got in, the accused pushed and knocked her down on his bed, put clothes on her mouth, stripped her naked and forcefully had carnal knowledge of her.The mother of the victim, in her testimony  said on the day of the incident she sent her daughter to go and sell mangoes.  Upon her return she noticed some blood stains on her clothes and threatened to beat her if she did not tell her what happened to her.

The witness said her daughter then narrated her ordeal with the accused. The matter was  later reported to the   Alkalo of the village who referred her  to the police. When asked by Justice Richards if she knows the accused very well, the witness replied in the affirmative, saying the accused is a sex maniac and had once requested her daughter for marriage when her daughter was a toddler but she had refused. The witness said her daughter was a virgin until the time the accused had carnal knowledge of her.