Baby-sitter stands by her testimony against Bhosip Kaiwi
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Baby-sitter stands by
her testimony against Bhosip Kaiwi
PORT MORESBY: Bhosip Kaiw’s lawyer Emmanuel Ellison told
State witness Rachel Ipang, the baby-sitter and Jenelyn Kennedy’s best friend,
that she had lied in her two statements to police.
“You said when you went
into the room, you saw pliers, screw drivers and kitchen knife, and some
clothes with blood stains. That mens you lied in your to police on June 24, 2020,
saying that you saw blood stains on the pliers, screw drivers and kitchen
knife,” Ellison told Ipang.
Ipang admitted that she
saw the tools with blood stains and put them in the cupboard.
“I did not see with my
eyes Bhosip assaulting Jenelyn with the tools but I only saw those tools in
their room when I went to clean it,” she said.
Kaiwi, from South Waghi’s
Minj village in Jiwaka, who allegedly
assaulted his wife Jenelyn over five days (June 18 to 22, 2020) in their
Korobosea home in Port Moresby, before Acting Judge Laura Wawun-Kuvi, pleaded
not guilty to a murder charge.
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Bhosip Kaiwi’s lawyer Emmanuel Ellison
yesterday told State witness Rachael Ipang, the baby-sitter and Jenelyn
Kennedy’s best friend, that she had lied in her two statements to police.
“You said when you went into the room, you saw pliers, screw drivers and
kitchen knife, and some clothes with blood stains,” Ellison told Ipang.
“That means you lied in your statement to police on June 24, 2020, saying that
you saw blood stains on the pliers, screw drivers and kitchen knife.”
Ipang admitted that she saw the tools with blood stains and put them in the
cupboard.
“I didn’t see with my eyes Bhosip assaulting Jenelyn with the tools but I only
saw those tools in their room when I went to clean it,” she said.
Kaiwi, from Minj village in South Waghi, Jiwaka, who allegedly assaulted his
wife Kennedy, over a five-day period (June 18-22, 2020) at their Korobosea home
in Port Moresby, before acting Judge Laura Wawun-Kuvi, pleaded not guilty to
the charge of murder.
Ellison told Ipang she also lied in her statement to police that on June 23,
2020, at 7am, she went to check her Nasfund statement.
“You told the court that on June 23, 2020, at 7am, you prepared the bottle milk
for the baby and went to Murray Barracks,” he said.
“You said Elizabeth (doctor), after treating Jenelyn and left, Bhosip started
assaulting her, and three times he came to your room.
“One of the three times, he came putting his other hand to his back and asked
you ‘how many times have you guys met Shaun Nicholas’.
“In your other statement to police on July 29, 2020, you said all these events
happened two weeks before June 23, 2020. So that means your story where Bhosip
assaulted Jenelyn and then came to your room were all lies.”
Ipang said it was true.
Ellison told Ipang that she lied in her statement to police on June 24, 2020,
when she said Bhosip assaulted Jenelyn after he had asked Ipang to boil water
and take it to the bathroom.
“But you told the court that after they came out of the bathroom, they went
straight into the room and slept, there was no noise until next day (June 23,
2020),” he told Ipang.
“In your statement to police on June 24, 2020, you said Bhosip assaulted
Jenelyn until 3am.”
Ipang said it was true that he assaulted her until 3am. She also said that what
she gave to the police on June 24, 2020, and July 29, 2020, were true.
Ipang said she understood the statement before she signed it.
“What I gave to the police is true,” she said.
Ellison further said that what happened in June 22, 2020, on some of those
events were exaggerated.
“Because the events, as stated in her statement, had happened two weeks before
June 23, 2020,” he said.
“No, it’s not true,” Ipang said.
Ipang’s evidence has been completed. The trial continues with more witnesses.
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