As survival Lioyd Reveals Evidence Of Missionary Richards
By staff writer
Monrovia -the Bushraod Island Magistrateria court has sent a 32-year-old man, Lucas K. Richards, an American National Alleged missionary to Monrovia prison for slashing the throat of his girlfriend Jessica Lioyd for destroying evidences in Duport Road Paynesville Community, about 4:00pm.
Defendant Lucas Richards, condemned for attempting to slash the throat of survival Jessica Lloyd, who assumed to be his girlfriend, had been charged with the crime of Criminal attempt to Commit Murder and Aggregated Assault, following a police investigation, on September 19,2023
Defendant Richards was charged and sent to jail, pending trial by the court, after the Liberia National Police Crime Services Division found him allegedly liable for attempting to chop survival Lloyd on Thursday, September 14.
According to the police charge sheet, a copy in the possession of FrontPage Africa, the investigation found out that Defendant Lucas Richards and survival Jessica Lloyd were involved in a love affair that started up at her school at the YWAM Bible Mission and later paid her diary, before the incident.
Accordingly, the survival informed defendant Richards that she was impregnated for him, but he administered some medication to remove the pregnancy on September 14, then visited the home of the survival parents and later informed them that he had taken her out under the pretense that he was going to console her, but on the contrary
However, police investigation noted that Defendant Richards, contrary to his information about the family, was later caught within the Palm Farm Community, near the Early Memorial School, trying to kill the survival Lucas, inflicting a wound at the back of her head and using a knife to cut a little portion of her neck.
” This was attested by witness Ernest Philip, who initially spotted defendant Richards perpetrating said action before alarming for assistance,” the Police Charge Sheet noted.
Victim Lloyd has since confirmed seeing Defendant Richards with a knife and at the occasion, where he took her to the bush pretending that he could be attacked by a snake.
Police said a physical examination on the white Land Cruiser, which Defendant Richard was driving on the same day shows that there was no problem with the tires, as claimed by the defendant, for which he was reportedly trying to repair.
Police said their investigation also shows that witness Ernest Philips and Abdullai Sheriff are not motorbike riders as claimed by defendant Richards.
The defendant has claimed that the two were motorbike riders who hit survival Lloyd and were trying to kill her for which he tried to to rescue her.
The investigation noted that the defendant’s testimony was untrue, for which he was charged with the crime of attempted murder and aggravated assault.
Defendant Lucas K. Richards, was in violation of chapter 10, section 10.1, chapter 14 for knowingly, purposely and intentionally attempting to caused the death of his girlfriend Jessica Lioyd by hitting her on the head with a heavy or blunt object which caused her to go unconscious, and subsequently used a sharp objects (knife) to slash the throat of survival Jessica Lioyd in a attempt to Kill her.
