BY ROMINAH FAKA
The case involving an off-duty police officer killed at the Dragon Pub in the Kukum area in May of this year has been further adjourned for September 10 for mention.
Yesterday court made directions for co-accused James Solomon Kai’ lawyer to appear on September 10 with the prosecutor to set a date for hearing of the long form preliminary inquiry (PI) for Mr Kai.
Paul Daoburi, 35, and his co-accused Kai, 21, were charged with murder.
The allegation alleged that the deceased and his colleague, along with the colleague’s wife, went to the Dragon Pub on the night of May 16 for drinks.
Some times between 12am and 1am an argument broke out between the deceased and a group of men, following an assault on his colleague wife in which a bottle was allegedly smashed against her head causing her to fell to the ground unconsciously.
It was alleged that during the course of the argument the deceased took out and applied a pepper spray on the group of men he was arguing with at that time.
The deceased was later dragged out of the Pub by an off-duty security accused Daoburi, where the deceased was attacked by a group of more than 10 men outside of the Pub.
The allegation further stated Daoburi joined in the attack, using a snooker cue stick with which he used to beat the deceased’s head multiple times.
The second accused Solomon Kai with nick name Solo allegedly attacked the deceased using a bottle.
A policeman who arrived at the scene intervened and took the deceased laying bleeding on the floor into a taxi to National Referral Hospital (NRH) where he pronounced dead.
ODPP appears for the crown and PSO for Daoburi and HOF Law Chambers for Kai.
