Coventry University lecturer ‘was torturer’

The ex-wife of former Liberian president Charles Taylor appeared at the Old Bailey today (Fri) accused of torturing people during the civil war. Coventry University lecturer Agnes Reeves Taylor, 51, allegedly inflicted severe pain or suffering ‘in the performance of her official duties’ in the African country between 1989 and 1991. She was arrested by the Metropolitan Police’s war crimes unit on 1 June and faces one count of conspiracy to commit torture and five counts of torture under the…