The third prosecution witness in the Yunusa Mbaye alleged stabbing case told the High Court that he saw the accused person run away after Mbaye fell to the ground bleeding during an altercation at a junction in Fajara.
PW3, Abdoulie Ceesay, a resident of Bundung Borehole and a mechanic by profession, told the Court that he recognised the accused person and recalled seeing him with the deceased on the day of the incident.
State Counsel A. Drammeh appeared for the prosecution, while Counsel C. Mendy appeared for the accused.
Abdoulie Ceesay told the Court that on the day of the incident, he was leaving his garage to buy breakfast. As he reached a junction and was crossing the road, he saw the victim in front and the accused behind him. Before the pair reached the junction, the victim had already been stabbed. He said he initially assumed the two men were merely chasing each other, and only later realised they had in fact been fighting.
He testified that he saw the victim fall to the ground, and that when the accused saw that, he did not attack the victim again but instead ran away. Abdoulie Ceesay said he then went to check on the victim, by which time six or seven people had gathered at the scene, with some chasing after the accused.
He told the Court that a taxi arrived shortly after he reached the victim, and that those present helped place him inside it. Describing the scene, Abdoulie Ceesay said he was frightened by the amount of blood, and that the wound appeared so severe that the victim’s intestines looked as though they were exposed. By that time, he said, people had already brought the accused back to the scene.
Abdoulie Ceesay testified that he was too frightened by the amount of blood to accompany the victim to the hospital, and that only the taxi driver and the victim went, as everyone else present was afraid.
After the victim had been taken away, the witness said the accused remained standing nearby, and members of the crowd insisted he should not be allowed to leave. Abdoulie Ceesay said he told the crowd he did not believe the victim would survive, and that the crowd then beat the accused, who kept repeating that he had not acted deliberately.
Abdoulie Ceesay said he intervened and told the others to stop beating the accused and instead take him to the police, since it was not yet known whether the victim would live or die.
He further testified that as the accused was being taken away, another man who recognised him remarked, “You wanted to bring me down, but see what God has done.”
Abdoulie Ceesay told the Court that at the police station, the accused accused him of taking his D500. He said the police took his phone number, and he informed them that the accused had stabbed someone.
Under cross-examination by defence Counsel Mendy, Ceesay confirmed that he was a mechanic and conceded that he had not witnessed the actual stabbing.
Put to him that, having not witnessed the stabbing, he could not say who had stabbed the deceased, the witness maintained that he could, explaining that only the accused and the deceased were at the junction before the six or seven other people arrived, and that when the deceased fell, it was the accused who was running behind him.
When it was suggested to him that he was not at the scene when the incident occurred, Abdoulie Ceesay responded that aside from the two, there were other men and women running toward the junction. Counsel Mendy put it to him further that he had not been at the crime scene and therefore could not know who was present.
Abdoulie Ceesay maintained that while he could not say who else was present, he saw that the victim had been stabbed in the neck, and that the accused, upon coming close to the victim and seeing the blood, backed away.
Asked whether he knew what had been used to stab the deceased, the witness said he did not. Counsel Mendy then put it to him that, not knowing what weapon was used, he also could not know what the accused had intended. Abdoulie Ceesay agreed that he did not know the accused’s intentions.
Asked whether anything he had told the Court, beyond what he personally witnessed, had been relayed to him by someone else, Abdoulie Ceesay denied that, insisting he had only testified to what he personally saw.
The witness confirmed that he did not accompany the victim to the hospital because he was afraid upon seeing him bleeding.
He also confirmed that after the accused was apprehended, he was beaten, and that he himself had taken part in beating him. Abdoulie Ceesay confirmed under further questioning that he had never worked as a law enforcement officer and had no medical expertise.
Next was PW4 Ousman Jammeh. The prosecution’s fourth witness, Ousman Jammeh, a police officer stationed at Kairaba Police Station, took the witness box and told the Court that he recognised the accused.
He testified that on 15th June 2026, at about 2:17 p.m., while at Kairaba Police Station, he received information of a murder at Fajara, behind GTBank, and proceeded to the scene together with fellow officers.
Upon arrival, the officers found that the victim had already been taken to the hospital. Ousman Jammeh testified that people at the scene informed him that the victim had been sitting under a tree listening to music while marking his students’ examination scripts when the accused, Momodou Bah, came and sat beside him and asked him to reduce the volume of his Bluetooth speaker.
According to what he was told, the victim refused, the two began pushing each other, and the accused then stabbed the victim. Ousman Jammeh said officers observed bloodstains at the scene extending from where the victim had been seated, and that some witnesses were taken to the police station to give statements.
Under cross-examination, Ousman Jammeh confirmed that by the time his team arrived at the scene, the accused had already been taken to the police station. He confirmed that he was the senior officer among the three who attended the scene.
Asked whether he had seen the examination scripts he said the victim had been marking, Ousman Jammeh said he had not. Asked what he had personally observed at the scene, he said the only thing he personally observed was bloodstains on the ground.
He further confirmed that his team was not the first to arrive at the scene, as Crime Scene Investigators (CSI) were already present when they got there. He said he had been authorised to attend the scene by his officer in charge, and that his team had been instructed to investigate the death of Yunusa Mbaye.
Asked about the role of the CSI, Ousman Jammeh said they were responsible for processing and investigating the crime scene, though he confirmed he did not personally interact with the CSI officers.
The matter adjourned to 21st July 2026 at 11:00 a.m.
