4 September 2014
Bogus interpreter threatened to scupper choirgirl inquest
The
inquest into the death of a choirgirl stabbed more than 50 times by her
obsessive ex-boyfriend nearly collapsed today (thurs) after a bogus interpreter
was used in court. Arsema Dawit, 15, was killed by Thomas Nugusse in the lift
of the block of flats where she lived with her family on June 2, 2008. Her
Eritrean born mother, Tsehaynesh Medhane, had been giving evidence in her
native Tigrigna language at the dead schoolgirl's inquest at Southwark
Coroner's Court. When Ms Medhane's family raised concerns that the Tigrigna
interpreter was not translating her evidence correctly, it was discovered that
she was speaking through an unaccredited court translator.
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