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Ex-wife of former Liberian president Charles Taylor denies torture offences in court
The ex-wife of former Liberian president Charles Taylor has denied committing torture in the African country, a court heard.
Agnes Reeves Taylor, 51, was arrested by the Metropolitan Police’s war crimes unit on Thursday over alleged crimes committed during the Liberian civil war between 1989 and 1991.
Reeves Taylor, of Kitchener Road, Dagenham, east London, was charged on Friday with four torture offences, a…