A FORMER GAMBIAN ATTORNEY GENERAL HAD HIS LEG AMPU
A FORMER GAMBIAN ATTORNEY GENERAL HAD HIS LEG AMPUTATED AFTER
CONTRACTING GANGRENE WHILE ON REMAND IN WORMWOOD RUBS PRISON, A
COURT HEARD TODAY.
(FRI)
MUHAMADU SAHO WAS TO HAVE APPEARED BEFORE BOW STREET
MAGISTRATES TODAY FOR COMMITTAL PROCEEDINGS ON FRAUD CHARGES
INVOLVING #20,000 BUT THE CASE HAD TO BE ADJOURNED.
HIS COUNSEL MR MICHAEL SAYERS TOLD THE COURT THAT SAHO, ALSO
A SITTING MP IN GAMBIA’S RULING PEOPLE’S PROGRESSIVE PARTY, WAS
RUSHED TO HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL LAST NIGHT WHERE HIS LEG WAS AMPUTATED
TO PREVENT THE SRPEAD OF GANGRENE.
‘HE CONTRACTED SEPTICAEMIA WHILE ON REMAND AT WORMWORD SCRUBS
WHICH ACCELATED TO GANGRENE,’ SAID MR SAYERS.
SAHO, AGED 55, WAS ARRESTED IN LONDON ON AUGUST 14 AND
CHARGED WITH OBTAINING CASH BY DECPTION FROM A WEALTHY BUSINESSMAN AT
A FLAT IN HERTFORD STREET, MAYFAIR.
THE HEARING WAS ADJOURNED AFTER THE COURT HEARD THAT MR SAHO
WAS LIKELY TO REMAIN IN HOSPITAL FOR AT LEAST TWO WEEKS.
TWO OTHER DEFENDANTS, SHERIFF HYDARA AND EL HADY CISSE WERE
BOTH PRESENT IN COURT THIS MORNING, SITTING IN THE DOCK IN
TRADITIONAL AFRICAN DRESS OF LONG WHITE ROBES.
AN INTERPRETER SAT BETWEEN THEM TRANSLATING COURT PROCEEDINGS
INTO FRENCH.
ENDS
