‘My sister didn’t try to stop torture killing’ says witness

A WOMAN made no attempt to stop her boyfriend torturing and killing her teenage brother over claims he was a witch, a court heard yesterday.

Kelly Bamu, 21, told a jury at the Old Bailey that her sister Magalie had failed to act when their younger brother was subjected to a horrific ordeal.

Kristy Bamu, 15, was attacked with objects including a hammer and a pair of pliers, before drowning in a bath.

Eric Bikubi and Magalie Bamu, both 28, are on trial for his murder, which they deny.

Today, Philippa McAtasney, QC, for Bamu, told the court her client was as “powerless” as her siblings to stop Bikubi.

She asked Kelly: “You’re upset because, as you see it, she failed to protect your brother, but she was as powerless as you all were, wasn’t she, in fairness?”

The witness replied: “Really, she was powerless? No. She could have stopped it and she didn’t.”

Bikubi has admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, and to causing actual bodily harm to Kelly and another sister. Bamu denies murder and actual bodily harm to her sisters.