Taylor’s lawyer storms out of war crimes court

CHARLES TAYLOR’S war crimes trial is ending the way it began — with the former Liberian president boycotting proceedings and claiming they are politically motivated and unfair.

Taylor’s British attorney Courtenay Griffiths stormed out of the courtroom yesterday after judges at the Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone refused to accept his 600-page summary of the case — a key document that distills three years of testimony from the defence’s perspective.

Taylor briefly stayed in his seat but later refused to return to the courtroom after a break.