The deceased was the daughter of Hon. Ansu Kaikai. She was also a philanthropist and social worker, a business woman and a United States citizen.
The accused Ibrahim Mansaray who is presently on trial at the High Court for murder was a driver to the deceased.
Dr. Owizz Koroma, the government consultant and Forensic pathologist who also doubles as Chief Superintendent of Police in his continuing testimony, said his duties includes training of medical students, the training of medical laboratory scientific officers and also the training of police scientific officers in various medical fields.
“As a forensic pathologist, I performed hospital autopsy as well as medical legal autopsy and all exhumation for the Republic of Sierra Leone nationally and internationally”, he explained.
Dr. Owizz also recalled 2nd April, 2019, that he was at Connaught Teaching Hospital and that upon the instruction of the then Chief Medical Officer, and at the request of the corona for Freetown, he performed an exhumation and carried a post-mortem examination on the remains of the deceased, at the site No 44B Lower Pipe Line Smart Farm Off Wilkinson Road Freetown.
He added that at the site, they retrieved the body well rapped with window cotton and neatly tied with a rope but was only skeleton remains, with no more flesh. He explained that after the exhumation, and from the bones he was able to know that it was a female skeleton in bones that were identified as Massah Kaikai, a 40 year old US citizen.
He said that the post-mortem conducted at the site was done in the presence of the DPP, Director of Crime Services, officials from the US Embassy, Head of Scientific Department, Line Manager, the Crime Officer, the owner of the said resident, friends of the accused Mohamed Kamara and several other relevant authorities.
“Upon completion, I reduced my findings into a postmortem report which has since been with the judiciary”, he disclosed.
The photos of the said bones and exhumation processes were identified in court by the witness.
The witness said specimen of the decrease was handed over to the FBI for DNA purposes and for personal identification of the decease.
According to him, during the postmortem examination after the body was exhumed, he discover that, the deceased was missing for over 8 months, and was neatly rapped with window cotton, tied with a rope at her ankle level with both knees push upwards.
He said the external examination shows that the neck was fractured, skull depressed, the brain was absent over 8 month, the chest was dried and the lungs were no longer there, the heart was destroy, the intestine and liver were decomposed and that the oesophagus was also absent.
Dr. Owizz told the court that the deceased bladder was decomposed; her genital was empty with her cervical vertebrate dislocated.
On the pathological cause of death; “In my expert opinions, the cause of death was neither accidental, nor suicidal but evidentially homicidal”.
Dr. Owizz said that the death of the deceased was unnatural due to manual strangulation and that the act itself was horrific that bears the mark of brutal killing, adding that no normal person could do such act.
He added that the skull was fractured, due to blunt force injury on the head, fractured of the horn/wings, of the hydroid bones.
The witness further disclosed that the specimen on the remains of the deceased Massah Kaikai that was given to the FBI for DNA and personal identification in the US also confirms that the remains was the deceased.
The Death Certificate was tendered in court which formed part of the prosecution evidence against the accused person.
The defence lawyer Cecilai Tucker from Legal Aid Board cross examined the witness as to how they came to know where the remains of the deceased was buried. The witness told the court that it was through investigation by the police and the FBI.
Lawyer Jessy Tucker prosecuted the matter on behalf of the states.
According to the Indictment on count one, the police alleged that the accused sometimes in August 2018, in Freetown murder Massah Kaikai.
It was further alleged that the accused on the aforementioned date burry a human body in a place other than a cemetery. Whiles counts three states that the accused on 9th August, 2018 in the dwelling house of the deceased stole her iPad, Apple mobile phone, computer and other property valued Le12, 285,000.
In a similar matter also in the same court, an accused Ibrahim Mansaray standing trial before Justice Ivan Ansumana Sesay (JA) of the high court on three counts charges ranging from murder contrary to law, burying a human body in a place other than a cemetery, contrary to Section 61(1) a of the Public Health Act 1960 act No 23 of 1960 and Larceny in a dwelling house 13a of the Larceny Act 1916.
Both matters were adjourned for further hearings.
