JB Danquah’s murder: Defence lawyer absence forces adjournment
The Accra High Court was compelled to adjourn the case where two persons are under trial over the death of former Abuakwa North MP JB Danquah Adu.
The lead counsel for the accused persons had taken ill.
Yaw Dankwa has been advised to seek medical care at the SSNIT hospital in Accra.
On Thursday, May 27, Berrel Sunkwa Mills, a junior officer who stepped in for the lead counsel, told the latest development in court.
Mr Dankwa was expected to continue with the cross-examination of the second prosecution witness Stephen Apreku, a security guard at JB’s residence.
The case has since been adjourned to May 31, 2021.
Daniel Asiedu, also known as Sexy Don Don, has been charged with murder while Vincent Bossu faces a charge of abetment — charges they have all denied.
At the last adjourned date, another security of the late MP gave his account of happenings that led to the death of his boss.
He told the court he panicked when he saw a ladder placed beside the building leading to the late Abuakwa North MP’s bedroom.
According to him, the ladder’s position was strange as it was kept at a different location before the night of the murder.
He is the second prosecution witness.
The driver of the late MP, Samuel Berko Sarkodie, also testified and has since been discharged.
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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 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, Asiedu and Bosso, armed with a catapult, cutter and sharp knife, went to the legislator’s house.
Bosso had assisted Asiedu 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 Asiedu was searching the room, the MP woke up and held him. A struggle ensued during which Asiedu stabbed the MP in the right chest above the breast.
The MP consequently held the knife, and Asiedu pulled it through his hand, leaving a deep cut in his palm.
The legislator bled profusely and fell by his bed, after which Asiedu stabbed him several times in his right chest and neck.
On realising that the MP was dying, Asiedu left the room and took with him three iPhones and absconded with his accomplice.
Asiedu and Bosso 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. Asiedu, 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.
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