There was a mild drama at a Lagos High Court yesterday in the trial of a commercial bus driver, Quadri Kasali, charged with alleged attempted murder of Justice Ebenezer Adebajo, as the father of the defendant disrupted the proceeding, pleading for mercy. Justice Balogun had, at the last hearing, dismissed a bail application filed on behalf of the defendant, but assured an accelerated hearing of the case. Shortly after hearing resumed yesterday, the father of the defendant, Aderemi Kasali, suddenly interrupted the proceeding, lying flat on the floor, crying and pleading that the judge should have mercy on his son. It took the intervention of the court’s orderly to stop the drama when he took the man out of the courtroom as ordered by the judge.
Few minutes after he was escorted out of the court, the defence counsel, Mr. Oludare Falana, from Femi Falana’s chambers, prayed the court for an adjournment.
He told the court that he just filed an application to quash the charge against the defendant and that another proof of evidence had just been served on him. “I have just filed an application to quash the charge against the defendant and also an additional proof of evidence had just been served on me. I will urge the court to grant an adjournment to enable me do a thorough check on the documents,” he said.
Naija Gist,Nigeria.
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