Ms Foday celebrated her 22nd birthday the day before her death, the hearing was told.
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Ms Foday's grandmother Theresa Farma, said Mr Kpakiwa had planned the getaway to surprise his student girlfriend.
BBC: Down Hall pool deaths: Drowned couple 'on surprise break'
RUF's founder, a former army photographer, Foday Sankoh, has been imprisoned in Freetown.
An inquest into their deaths opened in Chelmsford was told Ms Foday was at the hotel to celebrate her birthday.
Khadi received 32 votes in the 29 May election to defeat his closest rival in the race Dr Foday Bangura.
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Komba Kpakiwa, 31, and Josephine Newahun Foday, 22, died at the luxury Down Hall Country House Hotel in Hatfield Heath, on Saturday.
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Foday Sankoh, an important rebel leader, has been given the plum job that was promised him, controlling the country's diamond and bauxite resources.
The circumstantial evidence includes reports that Mr Taylor met and trained alongside the (now dead) RUF leader Foday Sankoh in camps in Libya.
Miss Farma lived with Ms Foday in Plumstead in south-east London.
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Rebel leader Foday Sankoh was eventually captured and remains in detention.
But the rebel group has been split by its search for a new leader after Foday Sankoh, the psychopath who founded it, was arrested in May.
Or so Sierra Leone's detained rebel leader, Foday Sankoh, told journalists on March 9th, after talking to religious leaders and, reportedly, to rebels in the field by radio-telephone.
The Libyan leader helped finance the early activities of a small group of "revolutionaries" including Charles Taylor, who became the president of Liberia, and the RUF leader Foday Sankoh.
Komba Kpakiwa, 31, from Erith in Kent, and Josephine Newahun Foday, 22, from London, were found at the luxury Down Hall Country House Hotel in Hatfield Heath on Saturday.
The fears of the refugees - who still have rebel atrocities fresh in their minds - were exacerbated by the continuing mystery surrounding the whereabouts of RUF leader Foday Sankoh.
Before the British raid, Foday Kallay had told relatives he was afraid that if he freed the hostages his fighters would be open to attack from the government army or the UN.
Mr Bangura has a particular problem with his candidacy because many members of the RUFP see him as an interim leader, pending what they hope will be the release of their historic chief, Foday Sankoh.
He is a sensitive partner in duos (with guitarist Bill Frisell and kora master Foday Musa Suso, among others) and within collectives (he first recorded "Oneness" in 1995, with guitarist John Abercrombie and bassist Dave Holland, in the leaderless Gateway Trio).
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