Freetown, Sierra Leone – 27 November 2025: In a dramatic reversal, the Sierra Leone Police Force has fully exonerated 27-year-old barrister Foday Merrytwoes Kamara Esq., ending a five-month investigation that had seen him suspended from legal practice and facing possible life imprisonment for murder.
Kamara was arrested shortly after the death of his 24-year-old girlfriend, university student and aspiring journalist Aminata Kabba, who collapsed at his upscale Lumley Beach apartment in the early hours of 15 June.
Initial police statements claimed Kamara supplied her with tablets believed to be MDMA (“ecstasy”), triggering acute organ failure.
A final toxicology report released yesterday by the Ministry of Health and Sanitation and corroborated by an independent pathologist from Ghana has now established that Ms Kabba died from massive intravascular sickling caused by an undiagnosed severe sickle-cell anaemia crisis, exacerbated by high-dose tramadol found in therapeutic but cumulatively lethal levels. No recreational drugs, including MDMA, were detected.
Deputy Inspector-General Elizabeth Turay confirmed all charges have been dropped with immediate effect and Kamara’s police file sealed.
The General Legal Council is expected to reinstate Kamara’s practising certificate as soon as possible.
