Kristy Bamu, 15, ‘tortured to death because he wet his pants’

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  • His sister lashes out at one of their older sisters during trial the Old Bailey
  • She said family was aware of witchcraft but denies any belief in the practice

By
Richard Hartley-parkinson

Last updated at 5:05 PM on 9th January 2012

A teenage boy was tortured to death for being a ‘witch’ because he had wet his pants, a court was told today.

Kelly Bamu, 21, broke down in tears as she spoke about the death of her brother, Kristy, 15, at their sister’s flat in Forest Gate, East London, saying she did nothing to help him.

He had been tortured after their sister, Magalie Baku, and Eric Bikubi, both 28, accused him of witchcraft.

Victim: Kristy Bamu had 101 injuries

Eric Bikubi. He is pictured in his football coaching gear.

Victim: Kristy Bamu, left, had 101 injuries when he was killed for ‘wetting his pants’. His sister’s boyfriend Eric Bikubi, right, is accused of beating him to death

They deny murder and assaulting Kelly and a younger sister.

She was asked what had sparked the
incident and Magalie said: ‘The reason was Kristy had wet his pants. He
tried to hide his pants in the kitchen and that is what triggered
everything.’

She looked over at her sister in the dock and added: ‘All over a pair of pants.’

What is alleged to have followed is a
brutal torture that ended when Kristy was drowned in a bath at the flat
on Christmas Day, 2010.

Prosecutors say Kristy and his two brothers and two sisters were beaten and terrorised for four days.

The two sisters were also badly wounded after being accused of sorcery, black magic and witchcraft.

The Old Bailey was told Kristy was
tortured with ‘an armoury of weapons’ and had 101 injuries before being
placed in the bath of water where he ‘begged to die’.

Kelly, the first witness in the trial,
said she and her brothers and sister had come to London from their home
near Paris to spend Christmas with Magalie.

There had been a ‘nice atmosphere’ for
the first few days until she heard a commotion in the kitchen where the
couple were with her brothers.

She sobbed: ‘I didn’t see anything but I heard some noise – it was from morning to night time.

A court drawing from the Old Bailey of Eric Bikubi, 27, and Magalie Bamu, 28, who deny murdering Bamu's 15-year-old brother Kristy after accusing him of being a sorcerer

A court drawing from the Old Bailey of Eric Bikubi, 27, and Magalie Bamu, 28, who deny murdering Bamu’s 15-year-old brother Kristy after accusing him of being a sorcerer

‘There was a noise like there were plates falling.’

She said through an interpreter the noises went on and off but she never discovered what they were.

The slightly-built young woman, with her hair piled up on her head, was only 20 when her brother died.

She said she was born in France but
her parents were from the Congo. She said she and they were aware of the
African term kindoki for witchcraft, but did not believe in it.

Kelly said: ‘They started talking about kindoki, witchcraft and this and that. It was as if they were obsessed by witchcraft and then it became absolutely unbearable.

‘They asked if we were witches. I repeated again and again and again that we were not witches. I did not know what was going on in their minds. They decided we had come there to kill them.’

Kelly said they had been made to fast, pray all night to remove the kindoki and hold a vigil over the next few days. Then Bikubi had allegedly said he would get the truth out of them with a stick.

She said angrily: ‘He began to hit Kristy while my sister was watching and didn’t do anything.

‘I begged him, we didn’t do anything, we are innocent. She didn’t argue at all. It was as if it was completely normal. She was just sitting there as a spectator.

‘He hit and hit Kristy. He was not feeling well, He was having trouble breathing and he fell over. As far as Eric and Magalie were concerned, that was the kindoki coming out of him.

‘We were told by a doctor that Kristy had received 200 blows.’

He had been struck with a hammer and iron bar and Magalie had also joined in with a stick.

Kelly added: ‘Kristy asked for forgiveness. He asked again and again. Magalie did absolutely nothing. She didn’t lift a finger and she was convinced that we did bad things.’

Turning again to the dock, she shouted at Magalie: ‘You are an idiot.’

Kelly added: ‘I am sure she still believes even to this day, that we are witches. She didn’t give a damn. She said we deserved it.’

As the questioning continued, Kelly again broke down and shouted through her tears: ‘Magalie deserves to die for what they have done.

‘I have no pity for her. She had no pity for us.’

The trial continues.

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