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 Alleged killers of the former Member of Parliament (MP),  Daniel Asiedu and Vincent Bosso
Alleged killers of the former Member of Parliament (MP), Daniel Asiedu and Vincent Bosso

Jurors to try JB’s killers

The Criminal Division of the Accra High Court has fixed May 16, 2017 to empanel jurors who will determine the fate of the alleged killers of the former Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North, Mr J. B. Danquah-Adu.

The court, presided over by Mr Justice L.L. Mensah, a Court of Appeal judge sitting with additional responsibility as a High Court judge, also fixed May 22, 23 and 24, 2017 as the other days for the hearing of the case.

Ms Sefakor Batsa, a Chief State Attorney represented the state, while Mr Kassim Muniru stood in for Mr Augustine Obour, the lead counsel for the two accused persons, Daniel Asiedu and Vincent Bosso.

The committal

The Accra Central District Court on March 14, 2017 committed Asiedu and Bosso to stand trial at the High Court.

At the committal hearing, the District Court, presided over by Mr Stephen Owusu, held that there was the need for Asiedu and Bosso to stand trial to answer the charges levelled against them.

On Asiedu, the court held that there were so many inconsistencies in the statements that he gave to the police and what he had narrated to the court.

Asiedu has been indicted on three counts of murder, robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery, while Bosso is facing a charge of conspiracy to commit robbery.

Facts

The facts, as presented by the prosecution, were that on February 8, 2016, Asiedu and Bosso decided to embark on a robbery operation at Shiashie, a suburb of East Legon where the MP resided.

Asiedu selected the MP’s house but Bosso disagreed and decided to abandon the robbery operation.

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

About 1 a.m. that same 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 a 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 ensued a struggle, during which Asiedu stabbed the MP in the right chest above the breast.

In the ensuing struggle, 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, managed to descend from the top of the house. 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 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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