{"id":465880,"date":"2018-02-20T09:51:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T09:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/20\/family-of-killed-achimota-student-urges-state-to-appeal-court-ruling\/"},"modified":"2018-02-20T09:51:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T09:51:57","slug":"family-of-killed-achimota-student-urges-state-to-appeal-court-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/20\/family-of-killed-achimota-student-urges-state-to-appeal-court-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of killed Achimota student urges state to appeal court ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Tuesday, 20 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>gbconline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-20<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/19389542.295.jpg\" alt=\"Murdered Achimota School Student Lily Donkor1\" title=\"Murdered Achimota School Student Lily Donkor1\" width=\"295\" height=\"193\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>The late Lily Donkor<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1519120317_847_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The family of late Lily Donkor, the Achimota student, who was shot dead by her colleague is urging the state to appeal a High Court decision which discharged the juvenile convict.<\/p>\n<p>Lily Donkor\u2019s family says the Accra High Court\u2019s ruling is a travesty of justice.<\/p>\n<p>An aunty of the deceased, Peggy Ama Donkor, a staff of Ghana Broadcasting Coporation, told an Accra TV &#8220;Joy News&#8221;, that the family of the juvenile, appear to have taken advantage of technicalities to set their son free.<\/p>\n<p>The discharge of the convict has left the family pretty much in shock now as they were when Lily Donkor was shot.<\/p>\n<p>The convict, Gerald Anaman was alleged to have accidentally shot Lily who had paid him a visit at his father&#8217;s residence. The incident happened in January 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Master Anaman was subsequently convicted on the charge of manslaughter by a juvenile court and handed a three-year jail term.<\/p>\n<p>However, on Monday, an Accra High Court set aside the judgment by the Juvenile court.<\/p>\n<p>The High Court said there was a miscarriage of justice because the juvenile court delivered a verdict without waiting for a social enquiry report.<\/p>\n<p>The jail term was imposed in September 2017 by a Juvenile court presided over by Bernardine S.A Senoo.<\/p>\n<p>He found the SHS student guilty of manslaughter and sentenced him to three years imprisonment at a correctional Home.<\/p>\n<p>But the latest ruling has left the Donkor family unhappy.<\/p>\n<p>Speakeaing to GBCONLINE, Peggy Ama Donkor said the family is heading back to Court again this morning, Tuesday, Febuary 20, 2018.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 57 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Tuesday, 20 February 2018 Source: gbconline.com 2018-02-20 The late Lily Donkor The family of late Lily Donkor, the Achimota student, who was shot dead by her colleague is urging the state to appeal a High Court decision which discharged the juvenile convict. 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