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D-Day For Eight Guilty Of Plotting To Kill PM
D-Day For Eight Guilty Of Plotting To Kill PM
SUVA (Fijilive.com/Pacific Media Watch): Fiji High Court judge Justice Paul Madigan will hand down sentence today on the eight men found guilty by assessors yesterday of plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama, Fijilive reports.
Following the unanimous verdict by the five-member team of assessors, Justice Madigan said yesterday afternoon he believed the eight were guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
Naitasiri high chief Ratu Inoke Takiveikata, former Pacific Connex employee Sivaniolo Naulago, former Fiji Intelligence Services director Colonel Metuisela Mua and former Counter Revolutionary Warfare soldiers Feoko Gadikibau, Barbados Mills, Eparama Waqatairewa, Kaminieli Vosavere and Pauliasi Namulo were remanded in custody yesterday for sentencing today.
They were charged with conspiring to kill the PM, Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum and then Finance Minister Mahendra Chaudhry between August 1, 2007, and November 3, 2007, in Suva.
The assessors reached their verdict following almost half a day of closed door deliberations.
Before going in to discuss the verdict, they were told by Justice Madigan to put aside their political views and rely only on what they had seen and heard in court.
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