Senegal sentences Muslim leader to 10 years hard labour in murder trial

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Senegal sentences Muslim leader to 10 years hard labour in murder trial vanguardngr.com vanguardnews

A court in Senegal court on Monday sentenced in absentia Muslim leader Sheikh Bethio Thioune to 10 years of hard labour for abetting the murder of two followers.The high criminal court in Mbour found the influential head of a branch of the Mouride Brotherhood guilty of failing to denounce a crime and being an accomplice to murder seven years ago.

Prosecutor Youssou Diallo last week asked the court to give hard labour for life to Sheikh Bethio over the killings on April 22, 2012. When the trial began exactly five years after the arrest, one of the sheikh’s defence attorneys, El Hadji Mamadou Ndiaye, said he had barred one of the victims from entering his home.

 

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vanguardngr Are they mad? Someone they should have sent to Nigeria to receive an award. We honor such people here in Nigeria unless he killed a cow.

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