Man to stand trial for allegedly burning down West Sepik administrator’s house
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Man to stand trial for allegedly burning down West Sepik administrator’s house
PORT MORESBY: A 61-year-old man was committed to stand trial in the
National Court in Vanimo for allegedly burning down the West Sepik
administrator’s residence on June 3.
Senior provincial magistrate Sasa Inkung on Monday ordered
Bruce Yarikawa, from Wewak’s Passam village in East Sepik to answer to three
arson charges.
The news break was published by The National:
Man to stand
trial over arson
October 21, 2021The
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A MAN has been committed to stand
trial at the Vanimo National Court for his alleged involvement in burning down
the West Sepik administrator’s residence, an official says.
Senior provincial Magistrate Sasa Inkung in the district court, on Monday,
committed Bruce Yarikawa, 61, from Passam village in Wewak, East Sepik, to
stand trial in the National Court on three arson charges.
Yarikawa was granted bail of K2,000 and will await his trial date.
He is accused of being involved in burning down provincial administrator Conrad
Tilau’s house at Dasi in Vanimo on at 3.30am on June 3.
Yarikawa allegedly planned the burning with four other suspects and drove them
to Dasi where he left them and went to Silung club.
He returned after the house was on fire and picked up his co-accused and left.
The fire also destroyed two vehicles belonging to Tilau’s wife.
Magistrate Inkung said on Monday that Yarikawa’s co-accused Samuel Kime’s case
was still pending before the District Court.
Kime, 46, from Green River, West Sepik, is alleged to have planned the act with
Yarikawa.
Magistrate Inkung said Kime also had a pending case on cybercrime charges
before the Vanimo National Court.
Kime was committed to stand trial in the National Court charged with stealing
financial documents of logging operations in the province and posting them on
Facebook.
He allegedly took the documents from the provincial administration office
without Tilau’s consent and while out on bail for the cybercrime charge was
alleged to have been involved in burning down Tilau’s house.
Kime is currently in remand.
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