Thursday, January 14, 2010

Bennett Case Hits Snag Over Hostile Witness


The prosecution’s key witness in the trial of a senior opposition leader told the court on Thursday that he was tortured into falsely implicating the defendant.


The witness, Peter Michael Hitschmann, said he implicated Roy Bennett, the treasurer of the Movement for Democratic Change, when state security agents tortured him.


Mr. Bennett, who faces capital terrorism charges, has pleaded not guilty, and the opposition has called the charges against him baseless.

* AP