The public prosecutor of the Mbour Criminal Court has requested a life sentence for Mr. Guèye, a notorious repeat offender from Joal, for the murder of fisherman SS Ndour. According to L'Observateur, which attended the hearing, the events date back to September 19, 2020. Around 5:00 a.m., the accused broke into the Ndour family home to steal a cell phone. "His first attempt failed."

His tenacity bordered on obsession: he returned to the scene for a second attempt. "Another failure." Chased by the victim and his brothers, the thief found himself cornered in a neighboring house. It was there that the scene descended into horror: Mr. Guèye attacked the fisherman, striking him twice with incredible violence in the head. Before succumbing to his injuries, the victim managed to point out his assailant to his brother: "It was him, he hit me twice in the head."

From confession to denial

The assailant was intercepted by the gendarmerie at the Joal bus station as he attempted to flee towards Mbour. During his police custody, he confessed to the murder, which followed his attempted robberies, but in court, after more than five years of pretrial detention, he now denies any intention to steal and disputes the use of a knife, claiming instead that he used an iron bar.

Faced with the "savagery" of the blows and the profile of the accused, a regular in prison environments, the prosecutor did not consider mitigating circumstances and requested the maximum sentence to definitively put him out of harm's way, adds the daily newspaper of the Future Media Group.