Accra, Jan.18, – An Accra
District Court has ordered the pathologist who conducted autopsy on Member of
Parliament for Abuakwa North, J. B. Danquah-Adu to produce his autopsy report
by February 8.
This was after Dr Lawrence
Edusei, the pathologist who is currently on retirement had told the court that
he was working on the report adding that he had so far received pictures from
the Police that would help him write the report.
On January 4, this year, Dr
Edusei appeared before the court after three subpoenas for him to appear before
the court for failing to issue the full autopsy report on the late MP.
The pathologist however explained
to the court that he could not produce the report because he had been burgled and
as a result he had lost about one thousand reports.
Dr Edusei however told the court
that when he procure the photographs and other vital materials he could
recollect and put together the report on the later MP.
“Writing the report would demand
additional work to be done. I need to get access to the pictures, take my time
and recollect what I saw and put same into writing,” the pathologist said.
The Prosecution recounted
difficulties in accessing the pathology report of the victim, hence the delay
in prosecuting the matter.
J.B Danquah Adu was murdered in
his apartment in 2016 at Shiashie.
Two suspects, Daniel Asiedu and
Vincent Bosso, were subsequently arrested and charged with murder following the
incident. Their pleas have not been taken and they have been remanded into
Prison custody.
The facts of the case, as
presented by DSP Amegah, were that the deceased MP lived with his family in a
one-storey house at Shiashie, near East Legon, a suburb of Accra, whilst Asiedu
and Bosso lived at Agbogbloshie, also in Accra.
About 23:40 hours on February 8,
2016, the MP arrived home in his private car driven by his driver.
The driver had handed over the
ignition keys of the car to Danquah-Adu and left for home, after which the MP
retired to bed in a room located on the first floor of his house.
At about 0100 hours on the same
night, Asiedu and Bosso, armed with a catapult, a cutter and a sharp knife,
went to the legislator’s house.
Bosso is said to have assisted
Asiedu to enter the house by scaling the fence wall on the blind side of a
security man who was fast asleep.
On entering the house, Asiedu
picked a ladder and climbed onto a porch on the top floor and entered the MP’s
bedroom through a window, whilst Mr. Danquah-Adu was sleeping.
Whilst 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.
The MP consequently held the
knife, and Asiedu pulled it through the MP’s hand, making a deep cut in his
palm.
The legislator, who bled
profusely, fell by his bed, after which Asiedu stabbed him several times on his
right chest and neck.
On realizing that the MP was
dying, Asiedu left the room and took with his three iPhone smart phones.
Meanwhile, the struggle between
the MP and Asiedu had drawn the attention of the security man in the house, who
alerted other security men in the neighbourhood.
Having been alerted of an
impending danger, Bosso took to his heels, leaving Asiedu behind.
However, Asiedu managed to
descend from the top of the house and jumped over the electric fencing on the
walls of the house into an adjoining house and escaped.
GNA
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