GAMBIA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR TABARA SAMBA

Tabara Samba was sentenced to death at the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court in Gambia for the murder of Ebrima Nyan, her husband. Magistrate Pa Harry Jammeh said that having observed the accused in the witness box, he realised that her demeanor does not in any way strike one as capable of such daring act. He noted that this was incomprehensible and unimaginable. He told the court that the accused’s actions on that day were shocking, deplorable, dishonourable, distressing and distasteful. He however stated in his ruling that the accused had been depicted as mean, unloving and unpitying. He concluded by inferring that in the accused, he saw a deceptive personality who personifies evil. He went on to say that the accused was every man’s nightmare and a disgrace to her counterparts and culture.