The Criminal Division of the Accra High Court has ordered the Ghana Prisons Service to produce a 22-year-old man accused of killing a seven-year-old girl and sleeping with the corpse.<\/p>\n
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The trial of the accused person, Lucas Agboyie, was supposed to start yesterday, but when the case was called, neither Agboyie nor a representative from the Attorney-General\u2019s Department (A-G) was present in the courtroom.<\/p>\n
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The situation compelled the Presiding Judge, Mr Justice Lawrence L Mensah, to issue the order and further direct the court registry to serve hearing notice on both the Ghana Prisons Service and the A-G.<\/p>\n
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The trial has been adjourned to June 13, 2017.<\/p>\n
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Confession at district court<\/strong><\/p>\n
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Lucas, also known as Sympathy, has been charged with murder and defilement over the incident which took place on April 19, 2015 at Ashaiman, near Tema.<\/p>\n
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He was committed to stand trial by the Accra Central District Court, presided over by Mr Worlanyo Kotoku last April.<\/p>\n
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During the committal proceedings, Lucas confessed to taking GH\u00a220 from the seven-year-old, killing her and sleeping with the corpse before using the money to buy marijuana<\/p>\n
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Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n
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The facts of the case, as presented by the prosecution, were that on April 19, 2015, a seven-year-old girl was sent by her mother with a GH\u00a220 note to buy bread.<\/p>\n
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After waiting for a while without their daughter\u2019s return, her parents became alarmed and sought the help of neighbours to search for her.<\/p>\n
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\u201cLater, an informant alerted the search party to the fact that he had seen Agboyie pulling the girl into his metal container,\u201d the prosecution said.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0Agboyie could, however, not be found in the container upon the search.<\/p>\n
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\u201cTo their utmost surprise, they found the naked body of the girl lying supine on an old student\u2019s mattress, with blood oozing from her mouth and nostrils,\u2019\u2019 the prosecution added.<\/p>\n
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When Agboyie was later apprehended, \u201che confessed to killing the girl, after which he had sex with the body.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Agboyie, after threats on his life, mentioned a man he called Baba Ali as the one who had sent him to commit the act.<\/p>\n
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When the police confronted him on the identity of his accomplice, Agboyie retracted his earlier statement and said he committed the act alone.<\/p>\n
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