With tears dripping down her cheeks, the mother of the juvenile offender who was a trader, identified the first accused as her son while adding that the 18-year-old young offender and the deceased were friends to her son.
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She told the court that on the morning of Saturday, April 3, 2021, “I went to fetch water and the woman who owns the water, told me to get someone to help me because she was going to church.”
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She told the court that, after the first trip, she asked her children to call the first accused from Ishmael’s (deceased) mother’s place for her.
She told the court that after that, “I decided to go and see for myself why they (accused persons) asked PW2 (a daughter) to return.”
“When he lifted the blocks, we saw that the raised portion popped up further and after that, I just asked myself whether (the first accused) had killed someone’s fowl and had buried it for fear of being scolded,” she wondered.
She told the court that, her husband then saw blood coming out of the place and “I said to my husband, it appears there is something buried there and my husband responded, that yes.”
She told the court that she also got scared and “He dredged further and someone’s hand came up.