Friday , March 29 2024

ATTORNEY GENERAL FREES JB DANQUAH’S PERPETRATORS

The Accra High Court  have discharged  the two persons who were remanded at the police costody for the murder of the member of parliament for Abuakwa North ,Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu.The discharge of the two followed an order issued by the Attorney General on Tuesday.

The State Attorney who issued this order said the Attorney General Department is no more interested in the prosecution of the two persons.

The two are Daniel Asiedu 19 year-old phone dealer and Vicent Bosso also phone repairer.The case was adjourned for the empaneling of a jury for  the trial when the  two last appeared at the Criminal Division of the Accra High Court. A jury was expected to be constituted a week earlier,but the prosecution pleaded with the court for an adjournment to enable it to deal with certain issues.

The prosecutor told the court at it last sitting that there was a new  development in the prosecution’s case which needed to be addressed.Senior State Attorney,Miss Sefakor Batsa ,however, did not inform the court about the new development then.”Under the circumstances,we pray the court grants an adjournment to enable us to deal with the new issues “.

Counsellor for the two accused persons, (Daniel and Vicent), Mr Muniru Kassim,did not object to the prosecution’s request last week.

Charges

Daniel Asiedu was facing three counts of murder,conspiracy to commit robbery and robbery,while Bosso had been charged with conspiracy to commit robbery.

The facts,as presented by the prosecution, are that on February 8 2016,Asiedu and Bosso decided to embark on a robbery operation.

About 11:40pm, the MP arrived home and went to bed in a room located on the first floor of his house.

At 1:00am that night,Asiedu armed with a catapult,a cutter and a sharp knife,went to the legislator’s house.He entered the house by scaling the wall on the blind side of the security man who was fast asleep.

On entering the house, Asiedu climbed onto a porch on the top floor with a ladder and entered the MP’s bedroom through a window.

While Asiedu  was searching the room, the MP woke up and held him.There ensured a struggle,during which Asiedu stabbed the MP in the right chest above the breast. Asiedu also sustained various injuries in his palm and chest.

The legislator fell by his bed,bleeding profusely after which Asiedu stabbed him several times on the right chest and neck.

On realising that the MP was dying,Asiedu left the room and took with him three iPhones.

Meanwhile,the struggle between the MP and Asiedu drew the attention of the security man in the house who alerted others in the neighbourhood.

Asiedu,however, manage to descend;he jumped over the electric fencing on the walls of the house into an adjoining house and escaped.

Asiedu then took the phones to a phones to a phone repairer to decode them,but the repairer saw bloodstains and the pictures of the MP on the phones and alerted the police.

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