contained
sensitive
documents
as
copies
of
Certificate of Occupancy and other documents;
and she accepted the request without asking to
know the contents of the file.
But she was unable to deny the fact that the
documents were found in her possession.
My finding is therefore that the Defendant’s attempt
to retract her confessional statement was belated.
Indeed it was an afterthought. The statement was
admitted in her presence. Her solicitor, who had
been served in advance with the statement and who
knew or ought to know that it contained positive
confession to the offence charged, did not object to
its admissibility when the same was sought to be
tendered. It is therefore too late in the day for the
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