One of yesterday’s Freetown papers has a story about a young man caught stealing an old pair of shoes. Members of the Leicester Road community (up the hill behind the parliament, on way to Fourah Bay College) cornered him and its alledged that he was beaten and stoned to death by this 'mob'. There was an awful photo of him in the paper, naked and bloody. The paper intimated that he deserved to die, more or less saying that it was a lesson he would never forget and a warning to others.
I know this community are plagued by repeated robberies but this is an atrocity and should be treated as such. People taking the law into their own hands is not how a country grows and progresses. Members of the same community and the people who own and write for the paper will go to church on Sunday and I wonder what they will pray for.
The Awareness Times does a summary online of the latest local and national news in Sierra Leone, although it wasn’t the paper who reported this in such an irresponsible way it does cover the story in its summary: http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/cat_index_037.shtml
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