Lucas Richards, the American Missionary undergoing trial for attempting to murder his Liberian wife, Jessica Lloyd, has denied his involvement.
Richards, who took the witness stand on Monday, March 25, 2024, testified that he has nothing to do with the incident that led Jessica’s injury,
Testifying at Criminal Court B, Defendant Richards explained that on September 14, 2023, in the Dixville Community while he and Jessica were riding in his car, he noticed that the tyre of his vehicle was experiencing some mechanical problem.
Based on the incident, Richards told the court that he decided to park his vehicle to repair his car tyre.
According to him, when he and Jessica disembarked from the vehicle, she went at the back of the car while he was lying under repairing the vehicle.
While Jessica was standing at the back of the car, defendant Richards claimed he heard heavy and loud sound of a motorcyclist attempting to hold the brake of his motorbike.
Defendant Richards also claimed in his testimony that he immediately left from under the car and saw his fiancee in the dish with the bike lying on her. “While the motorcyclist was trying to remove the bike, his fiancee Jessica, he, the motorcyclist began to shout.
“The motorbike guy took the bike from on her and he started shouting for people to believe that I was the one who had attempted to kill my wife,” Richards narrated.
While shouting, he (Lucas) saw angry crowd rushing toward him and Jessica so he pulled off from the scene leaving Jessica in the midst of the angry crowd and immediately reported himself to the police station.
Meanwhile, Defendant Richards has denied that he destroyed the pregnancy of Jessica Lloyd.
According to him, his medical condition cannot allow him to produce a child, something he claimed Jessica is aware of.
He further testified that Jessica had earlier proposed to him that she wanted to be a surrogate mother for any future child he will born.
Based on Jessica’s proposal to him, he informed her that he was going to have his wife informed about Jessica’s proposal.
While waiting for his American wife to respond, Jessica’s family requested that he should dowry their daughter and while in the process the incident occurred, testifying that at no time did he use any object or substance to terminate Jessica’s.
