Girl who allegedly killed economist boyfriend ordered back in prison
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Girl who allegedly killed economist boyfriend ordered back in prison
PORT MORESBY: A girl charged with killing her economist boyfriend
in 2019 was ordered to be taken back to prison by acting judge Justice Laura Kuvi.
Justice Kuvi said: “How did we not notice that someone
(facing) a charge of murder was walking freely on the streets?
“Only the National or Supreme Courts have the
jurisdiction to grant bail for offences such as murder, armed robbery, rape and
other serious crimes,.
The girl, a juvenile, allegedly murdered Samuel Joseph
Pumai in his rented flat in Waigani on Nov 24, 2019, after seeing him in a
compromising position with a girl through a window.
Pumai was then one of the Treasury members preparing Budget
2020.
The court proceedings were reported by The National:
Judge queries
girl’s bail
January 26, 2022The
NationalMain Stories
By BEVERLY PETER
A JUDGE yesterday ordered that a girl facing a wilful murder charge be
taken back to prison, questioning why she had been granted bail by a committal
court.
The girl, a juvenile, allegedly murdered her boyfriend in Port Moresby on Nov
24, 2019.
Acting judge Justice Laura Kuvi said: “How did we not notice that someone
(facing) a charge of willful murder was walking freely on the streets?
“Only the National Court and Supreme Court have the jurisdiction to grant bail
for offences such as wilful murder, murder, armed robbery, rape and other
serious crimes.”
The officer who brought the girl to court explained to the judge that she was
released from custody and put under her parents’ care early last year.
The officer said the girl had spent three months in custody and was released
after claiming that she had been sexually abused in prison, and that she also
lost her mother to the Covid-19.
The officer said the girl’s release was granted by the Juvenile Court in
Boroko.
The bail was extended when the case came before Justice Panuel Mogish at the
National Court in Bomana last year.
Justice Kuvi said any bail application for the juvenile must be properly filed
and heard in the National Court or the Supreme Court.
She set Feb 8 for the accused’s pre-trial report in the National Court.
Police alleged that the girl and her boyfriend, Samuel Joseph Pumai, were in a
relationship during the time of the offence.
It is alleged that on Nov 24, 2019, she went to his rental flat in Waigani to
see him, but was told that he was not home.
But she became suspicious when she saw his shoes at the door.
She again tried to enter the house but was blocked by her boyfriend’s brother.
She was walking away when she heard voices. So she went around the back of the
house to check.
It is alleged that she saw through a window her boyfriend having sex with
another girl.
She rowed with Pumai before going back to her home in Tokarara, and later
returning with two aunts.
They waited outside the door while she went in, argued again with Pumai, and
stabbed him on the chest with a kitchen knife.
Pumai was taken to the Gerehu Hospital but died later.
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