[2][3] Samo was based in the Îles de Los, a group of islands off Conakry in modern-day Guinea.
[4] He was seized along with Charles Hickson from there in early 1812 and taken to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to be put on trial.
[4] The trial was held under the auspices of the Vice admiralty court in Sierra Leone.
[1] Samo was convicted but given a royal pardon by Governor Charles William Maxwell.
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