A 35-year-old football fan, Kolade Johnson, allegedly killed by a policeman at Mangoro area of Lagos on March 31, 2019, suffered six gunshot injuries, a pathologist, Dr Oluwaseun Williams, told the court on Thursday.
Dr Williams testified while being cross-examined by defence counsel, Abayomi Omotubora, at the trial of Ogunyemi Olalekan, a dismissed police inspector accused of murder.
The consultant pathologist from the Department of Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital told an Ikeja High Court that he had been practising pathology for 10 years.
He then interpreted an autopsy report (Exhibit D2) during the cross-examination.
“There were four injuries on the thigh, two injuries on the hands, one on the right hemiscrotum (either half of a scrotum), one on the left hemiscrotum,” he said.
“The injury on the left hemiscrotum was an abrasion which could be from anything and the second-hand injury was not related to injuries caused by gunshots.
“Six of the injuries were related to the penetrative missiles. The injuries on the thigh were through and through. There are features that are suggestive that they were caused by firearm missiles. We counted six injuries identified as firearm injuries.”
