Taylor ex is refused bail

THE ex-wife of former Liberian president Charles Taylor was refused bail last night ahead of her trial on charges of torturing children and plotting rape.

Coventry University prof Agnes Reeves Taylor, 52, faces trial next October over the alleged offences between 1989 and 1991 during the West African country’s civil war.

Reeves Taylor, of Dagenham, East London, appeared at the Old Bailey by video link from prison.

Her ex, Taylor, is serving 50 years for war crimes.