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 NationalNational

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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