By Audrey Raymonda John

Agustine  Alfred Kayoko of No. 32 Taylor Street Wellington has testified before magistrate Hadiru Daboh of Ross Road Court Number Three about how his son Robert Kayoko had planned to kill him and burnt his house down.

The accused was charged to court after being investigated by the police for threatening to kill someone and for other related offenses contrary to the laws of Sierra Leone.

According to the charge sheet, it was alleged that on the 24th of October 2023, at No. 32h Taylor Street at Wellington, in the east of Freetown, the accused threatening to kill his father complainant Alfred Kayoko and to burn down his house.

Led in his examination in chief by Assistant Superintendent of police Fatmata Kuyateh, the complainant recognized the accused as his last child.

He said on the 24th of October 2023, he was at home in the morning hours and that the accused met him and requested for some money in order for him to go and see his mother on the grounds that he was maltreated by some people.

The complainant told the accused son that he was not financially fit as he had just come from the village in a trip.

He said the accused Robert Kayoko told him his life was at stake because as he was ready on that to order his gang to burn the house down.

The complainant said his tenant held a meeting with them and advised the father to report the matter to the police before his son carried out that diabolical act.

The father arranged with his tenant to take the accused to Wellington police station where he was arrested and detained.

Explaining further, the father, at the police post, made a report that the son was threatening to kill him and burn down his house.

In a cross examination,  the father named his witnesses as Alimamy Sabally   and Vandy Alie. In another question put to him, the complainant [ the father] said his witnesses would confirm that his son , the accused, was threatening to kill him and burn his house.

When confronted as to whether the complainant saw his son with any gang ,he said he didn’t.

the complainant said during his  encounter  with the accused, his son was very fierce in appearance when talking to him.

At the end of cross examination the accused asked the bench for mercy but he did that late to.

Magistrate Hadiru Daboh told the son that he has no right to the properties of his father until he is dead.

He refused him bail and adjourned the matter to the 14th of November 2023 for the prosecution to continue the other day.