On the 18th of January, 2008, the team submitted its report titled “Review of
Post Mortem on the deceased Meideh Togba” (Annexure H4). The report
stated that:
Various body parts of the deceased including the vestibular minor
labial tissues, vaginal wall components of the external genitals
and parts of the respiratory system were missing and concluded
that the deceased was sexually violated and strangled before the
hanging.
The Plaintiffs posited that the 5th Defendant’s report was reckless and
negligently fabricated as it could not have reached that decision when the
report also stated that the deceased entire vaginal cavity was missing and thus
not examined.
The Plaintiffs engaged the services of three medical doctors from Nebraska
Institute of Forensic Science, United States of America in a bid to counter the
review report. The doctors conducted a thorough autopsy on the exhumed
remains of the deceased on 24th May, 2008. Their report disputed and
discredited the review report by 5th Defendant as being substandard due to its
failure to examine vital organs of the deceased and concluded that there was
neither physical nor empirical medical evidence to support throttling or manual
strangulation injuries to the deceased neck as the thyroid bone was not broken.
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