Prince Taylor was an investigator of the Court sitting to A defence defence former investigator Charles Taylor with the special Tribunal for Sierra Leone was found guilty of violating the witnesses in the trial of the former President of Liberia Charles Taylor imprisoned.Prince Taylor was found guilty of five counts of contempt of court, the Court said.
He is accused of trying to convince the prosecution witnesses to recant their testimony by a former Sierra Leone rebel, Eric Koi Senessie.
Charles Taylor is currently on appeal against his conviction in the Hague.
He was sentenced to 50 years in prison in May last for crimes of war by providing weapons and support to the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels in neighbouring Sierra Leone during the bloody 1991-2002 civil war.
Defense lawyers called the verdict a "miscarriage of Justice" and that the statement of conviction quashed.
"Odious crimes".Prince Taylor was found guilty of four courts to try to persuade the former witnesses to recant their testimony through Senessie, a member of the RUF.
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• 1989: Launches rebellion in Liberia
• 1991: RUF rebellion starts in Sierra Leone
• 1997: Elected President after a 1995 peace agreement
• 1999: The Liberia Lurd rebels launch an insurrection to oust Taylor
• June 2003: stop the warrant issued. two months later, he comes down and goes into exile in Nigeria
• March 2006: arrested after an escape failed, bid and sent in Sierra Leone
• June 2007: trial opens - organized in the Hague for security reasons
• April 2012: recognized guilty of aiding and abetting the Commission of war crimes
• May 2012: sentenced to 50 years in prison
• June 2012: his lawyers say he will appeal against his conviction
It has also been recognized guilty of "educate and persuade otherwise Senessie to give false information to the independent counsel appointed by the Registrar.Mr. Senessie was found guilty by the special court in June to eight counts of interference with the same witnesses and sentenced to two years in prison the following month.
He testified against Prince Taylor during his trial.
Prince Taylor was acquitted of four counts of attempting to bribe witnesses to change their testimony. He should be sentenced by the special court at a later date.
Charles Taylor became the first former head of State to be convicted of war crimes by an international court since the Nuremberg trials after the second world war.
He was found guilty of 11 counts of war crimes for atrocities including rape and the murder and described by one of the judges as "some of the most heinous crimes in human history."
In exchange for the so-called conflict diamonds, Taylor provided arms and logistical and moral support to the RUF, prolong the conflict and the suffering of the people of Sierra Leone, said.
Taylor started the civil war of Liberia as a warlord in 1989 and was elected President in 1997. He ruled for six years before being forced into exile in the South of Nigeria. He was arrested in 2006, while trying to flee Nigeria.
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