Ex-Liberia Official’s Wife Guilty of Killing for Magic
<i> Reuters</i>
MONROVIA, Liberia —
A Liberian court found the wife of former Defense Minister Gray Allison guilty of helping him murder a police officer to obtain blood and human parts for a magic potion, state radio said.
Angeline Watta Allison and two men were convicted by a 12-member jury of killing patrolman Melvin Pyne in March, 1989.
Her husband, once President Samuel Doe’s right-hand man, was sentenced to death last August for the same crime. He is still in prison.
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