LAWYERS defending former Liberian president Charles Taylor have filed an urgent motion in an attempt to delay supermodel Naomi Campbell giving evidence in his war crimes trial.

Trial in Africa is too risky for a man accused of fomenting bloodshed across West Africa, international prosecutors said in requesting that Charles Taylor’s trial for crimes against humanity be moved to The Hague in the Netherlands.

Trial in Africa is apparently too risky for a man accused of fomenting war across west Africa – and believed to have the support and money to create more trouble.

Irish peacekeeping troops in Liberia today began drills to protect a war crimes court set up in Sierra Leone.