The post-mortem report on the death of former Abuakwa North MP, J. B. Danquah-Adu, has been stolen, a pathologist Dr Lawrence Edusei has said.
Dr Edusei, who carried out an autopsy to determine the cause of death, told an Accra High Court that the official document could not be found, even though his team determined that the former MP died due to exsanguination.
According to Dr Edusei, he travelled to Germany and returned only to find out that criminals had broken into his house and stolen the autopsy report.
He made this known to the court on Monday, January 31, during cross-examination by defence counsel, Yaw Dankwah.
The pathologist said the report was finalised in 2018 after initial examinations in 2016 after the body of the deceased was brought to the Police Hospital.
Dr Edusei was led by Principal State Attorney Mrs Sefakor Batse, as he explained that there was “virtually no blood in the body” of the late MP, who died of “an unnatural cause.”
The court presided over by Justice Lydia Osei Marfo has adjourned the case to 1 February 2022, for further cross-examination.
Facts
The provisional facts of the prosecution were that the former MP lived with his family at Shiashie, near East Legon, a suburb of Accra.
The accused persons’, Daniel Asiedu and Vincent Bosso, lived at Agbogbloshie, also in Accra.
According to the prosecution, between February 8 and 9, 2016, the late legislator was chauffeured home in his private car.
The driver reportedly handed over the ignition keys of the car to Mr Danquah-Adu and left for home, after which the MP retired to bed in a room located on the first floor of his house.
On February 9, 2016, at about 1 am, Daniel and Vincent, armed with a catapult, cutter and sharp knife, went to the legislator’s house.
Vincent had assisted Daniel to enter the house by scaling the wall on the blind side of a security man who was fast asleep.
Asiedu picked a ladder on entering the house, climbed onto a porch on the top floor, and entered the MP’s bedroom through a window while Mr Danquah-Adu was sleeping.
While Daniel was searching the room, the MP woke up and held him. A struggle ensued during which Daniel stabbed the MP in the right chest above the breast.
The MP consequently held the knife, and Daniel pulled it through his hand, leaving a deep cut in his palm.
The legislator bled profusely and fell by his bed, after which Daniel stabbed him several times in his right chest and neck.
On realising that the MP was dying, Daniel left the room and took with him three iPhones and absconded with his accomplice.
Daniel and Vincent have since been charged with murder and abetment of crime in the murder of the late MP.
They both pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit robbery. Daniel, on the other hand, has pleaded not guilty to murder and robbery.
Four years after the gruesome murder of the former MP, justice is yet to be served in the case.