The courtroom of Criminal Court 'B' was a scene of grief and disappointment after Judge Nelson Chinneh acquitted an American missionary, Lucas Richards, who was accused of attempting to murder his Liberian wife Jessica Lloyd in September 2023.
The courtroom of Criminal Court 'B' was a scene of grief and disappointment after Judge Nelson Chinneh acquitted an American missionary, Lucas Richards, who was accused of attempting to murder his Liberia n wife Jessica Lloyd in September 2023.
On December 14, 2023, the government of Liberia indicted defendant Lucas K. Richards with the commission of the crimes of aggravated assault and criminal attempt to commit murder, felonies of the second degree. According to him, Jessica Lloyd, who is the lone testimony of the eyewitness, Enerst Philip, without any corroborating evidence linking the defendant to the crime, is insufficient to sustain the indictment.
"When she appeared as the prosecution's rebuttal witness, she said that Lucas Richards hit an iron on her head and subsequently attempted to slice her throat. She also said that she never knew that Lucas Richards wanted to kill her until he pulled off from the Crime scene:"The court defined variance as a difference or disagreement between two parts of the same proceeding which ought to be in consonance," he noted.
Also, Judge Chineh said, some angry crowd said that wounds were inflicted on another person, particularly Enerst Philip, the boy who was allegedly beaten by some of the angry crowd. According to him, it is an established law in this jurisdiction that the best evidence which the case admits of must always be produced; that is, no evidence is sufficient which supposes the existence of better evidence. Bah vs. RL, 36LLR541.
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