An appeal filed by the jailed former Chief of Defence Staff of The Gambia Armed Forces, Lt General Lang Tombong Tamba, and six others have been dismissed by The Supreme Court of The Gambia.
Reading the Supreme Court’s judgment on behalf of the five-member panel of judges, Supreme Court Justice Raymond C. Sock stated that this was an appeal against the judgment of the Gambia Court of Appeal, delivered on 4 April 2011, which upheld the trial judge’s conviction of the appellants of the offences of treason and conspiracy to commit treason.
Justice Sock said the facts leading to the appeal were sufficiently summarized in the statements of case of the appellants and the respondent, filed on 18 June 2012 and 16 July 2012 respectively. Click to read more