PHOTO: Suspect Angel Success being escorted out of the court to prison
A16-year-old sex workers in the Liberian capital, Monrovia identified as Angel Success Watson has been sent to the Monrovia Central Prison for allegedly killing her customer, as Garmah Never Lomo reports.
In this West African county, prostitution is forbidding under Liberian law and children under 18 are considered minor.
Ansu Kormah alias, “Melting Kate” was allegedly killed recently in the damaged and abandoned in Euro Bank Building on Broad and Warren Streets in central Monrovia.
Defendant Watson was charged with the crimes Murder in violation of Chapters 14, Sections 14.1 of the revised penal code of the Republic of Liberia.
According to the police findings, the deceased Kormah was seen on the premises the Euro Bank Building around the hour of 2:30pm on July 29, where he met an argument ongoing between Officer Mike B. Thompson of the Monrovia City Police and another person over phone charging business.
The findings further said that while on the ground floor of the building where Ma. Fatu business is situated, the victim encounter defendant Watson who was sitting with some customers on the same floor where her boyfriend Francis Kollie was selling for his mother.
The findings established that the deceased was noted to have intimately Cuddle with the defendant and offered her a drink, but his action brought about verbal altercation between him and Mike B. Thompson the City Police Officer, in which said exchange lasted for several minutes until the intervention of Lawrence Kromah of the LIS, and his girlfriend Togbah.
The findings maintained that on the said night, the deceased play daughter along with her friends were at Happy Club Entertainment Center at the former Pepper Bush night Club on Warrant Street opposite the Ministry of Transport entertain themselves and some minutes after 12:00 Midnight, one of the deceased play daughter friends returned to the building to sleep.
The findings explained that in the course of the night at about 4:00 am after the deceased had an initial encounter with the defendant, he further contacted her to engage into commercial sex with her thus causing her to contact Emmanuel Mends-Cole to give her access to his accommodation to be used for the said purpose.
The room was however provided to her by Emmanııel Mends-Cole who claimed that the defendant should give him L$100.00 to enable him to go buy spark (take the narcotic called cush) therefore assured him of giving him small thing after the interaction.
The police findings further that in the early morning hour, the play daughter upon discovering him lying down at the front of the building on Broad Street.
Emmanuet Mend- Cole is said to have confirmed to the investigation that he indeed give his room key, which is situated on the second floor of the building to defendant and later went to smoke with his friends on Johnson Street, while sitting, they got information that someone had fallen from the building.
The findings explained that upon Mendscole’s arrival at the scene, he noticed that it was the same fellow that defendant took upstairs to his room. When he ran upstairs to locate the defendant, he noticed that the room door was wide open with the key in the lock hanging on the catch and was abandon, and defendant was nowhere to be seen.
The findings revealed that later that morning at about 9:00am, he came across defendant upon inquiring from her about what had happened between she and the deceased when they went up to his room, she denied claiming that she and the deceased never had anything to do.
The findings also explained that after it was acknowledged that the victim had died at the JFK hospital on Sunday morning, the police began making random, arrest at the Euro Bank Building, the defendant who was there at the time doing some laundry with her boyfriend Francis Kollie who was also arrested, fled the scene and was not seen again until after about two months and three weeks.
That upon the arrest of defendant on Friday October 20, she was accorded her Miranda rights for which she offered to refrain from making a formal statement but verbally admitted that the deceased l had a brief encounter with her that morning expressing concerns about her wellbeing and even offered her a drink which she declined claiming that she do not drink or smoke, and even denied having any sexual encounter with the deceased that morning of the incident, she also verbally denied having any access to the room of Emmanuel Mendscole on the second floor, but acknowledge that the only discussion she had with Emmanuel Mendscole was when he asked her to assist him with LD$ 1000 to go and smoke which she did.
Defendant Watson also verbally provided conflicting disclosure that on the morning of the incident she and her boyfriend Francis Kollie packed his mother market and afterwards they both retired to sleep bed.
In contrast to her assertion, her boyfriend Francis Kollie disproved her same, claiming that his girlfriend was lastly seen by him going upstairs with the deceased at about 4:00 am after she had a brief interaction with Emmanuel Mendscole, and since that time he had not seen her again until later during the afternoon when she returned to the building and refuse to comment on what had transpired between her and the deceased.
That investigation further established that the statement provided by Madam Marthaline Miller, who provided information of which the deceased disclosed to her during her visit to him at the J.F.K Medical hospital on his sick bed with regards to what happened on the night of the incident appeared inconsistent with the information being obtained by the investigation.