GAMBIA: SENEGALESE MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH

Justice Mabel Maame Agyemang of the Banjul High Court in Gambia convicted and sentenced Salifu Nyang, a Senegalese national, to death for murdering his fellow Senegalese national one Alfonse Faye. In her judgement, Justice Agyemang stated that Nyang was charged with the offence of murder and destroying the evidence. She said that the convict in his statement to the police acknowledged stabbing the deceased as he was trying to free himself from the deceased. She added that the medical certificate also confirmed that the death of the deceased was as a result of the stab wounds. Justice Agyemang finally stated that the evidence of the prosecution witnesses remained uncontroverted. Nyang was accusedf of murdering Faye at Gunjur beach in April 2005 by stabbing him with a knife three times.