The first prosecution witness in the ongoing Abdul Kpaka murder trial over the death of Sia Fatu Kamara has said that the deceased insisted on maintaining her love affair with Kpaka because she was in love with him despite the accused used to abuse her.

Christiana Kamara, a younger sister of the deceased was being cross examined by Lawyer Emmanuel Teddy Koroma before Justice Alfred Ganda on Wednesday July 23, 2025.

The witness was answering to question as to why the deceased maintained her love affair with the accused if the accused indeed used to abuse her. The witness however told the court that she never witnessed the accused insulting her sister the deceased, but that the deceased had been telling her such.

She earlier told the court that she had known the accused for her sister for over eight years and agreed that they were in serious relationship. After affirming that her sister was so much in love with the accused, she however said that she could not tell if the accused was actually in love with her sister.

She also told the court that she was close to the accused and that she loved the accused as her sister’s fiancé, but her love for the accused seized after the incident. She also admitted that the accused was a youth and human right activist and he was a lecturer at Fourah Bay College (FBC) and president of a social club at FBC.

The witness also admitted that the accused was with them throughout from the time the deceased’s corpse was handed over to them at the Emergency Hospital to their house for prayer, and to the time the deceased was taken to the mortuary.

The witness also denied to have said in her statement to police during investigation that her sister used to have difficulty in breathing, but part of  the statement in question indicated her saying that “I knew that once in a while she experienced difficulty in breathing whenever she does hard work.”

Meanwhile, the witness said she told investigators that it happened once.

The witness refuted a suggestion that the difficulty in breathing is as a result of “cardio” problem saying that she is not a medical doctor to say so.

She further noted that the said difficulty in breathing whenever she does hard work, happened in her presence, but that the deceased had been telling her about it. She said the deceased had never been hospitalised for such.

She also told the court that she had been suspicious about the cause of the deceased’s death after seeing a cut on the upper lip of the deceased and a blood stain on her lower lip.

She said during the day-long -prayer for the recovery of the deceased at their house, she had a conviction that the deceased had actually died and would not be resuscitated.

The witness also debunked a suggestion that it is possible that while the deceased was being taking up stairs she could have fallen and as a result, her lip cut off while she was being taking up stairs at the three story building, where the witness and the accused resided, because according to her, because the deceased was held by hefty healthy men.

The witness had earlier in the continuation of  her testimony on same day said that when the deceased was brought home from the hospital for prayer, the accused and some of his family members brought the deceased up stairs.

The witness told the court that several pastors and their teams prayed for the recovery of the deceased but she never regained her life. The accused, Kpaka was charged with three counts of murder and perverting the course of justice. The case resumes Wednesday July 30th 2025.