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. 4

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