General News of Thursday, 22 February 2018<\/p>\n
Source: <\/strong>citifmonline.com<\/p>\n 2018-02-22<\/p>\n The autopsy report of the late Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North, J.B. Danquah-Adu, has finally been presented to the court after several months of delay.<\/p>\n The report, the details of which are unknown, have been presented to the judge, according to information from the court registry.<\/p>\n On January 4, 2018, the pathologist who conducted the autopsy, Dr. Lawrence Edusei, stirred some controversy when he told the court that the report was missing.<\/p>\n He explained that thieves broke into his house and bolted with some of his belongings, including a computer which contained thousands of autopsy reports.<\/p>\n Dr. Edusei had been subpoenaed in November 2017 to explain why he had not furnished the police with the full autopsy report almost two years after Mr. Danquah-Adu was murdered.<\/p>\n The two accused persons in the murder are Daniel Asiedu and Vincent Bosso.<\/p>\n Asiedu is alleged to have stabbed the late MP in the chest with a knife in his residence at Shiashie, near East Legon. Bosso is said to have helped Asiedu scale the wall of the house after committing the crime.<\/p>\n Police have said the delay in the release of the report has hampered their efforts to build a solid case against the two murder suspects.<\/p>\n In the period since his death, Ivy Danquah-Adu, the wife of the late MP, expressed dismay with the delay in prosecuting her late husband\u2019s supposed killers.<\/p>\n Asiedu and Bosso were on trial at the High Court after more than a year of committal proceedings at the district court.<\/p>\n But on May 29, 2017, they were discharged by the High Court after the Attorney-General filed a nolle prosequi to discontinue the prosecution, then rearrested and re-arraigned.<\/p>\n The case has been adjourned to March 15, 2018.<\/p>\n Facts of the case<\/b><\/p>\n The facts of the case, as presented by Police in court 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.<\/p>\n About 11:40 p.m. on February 8, 2016, the MP arrived home in his private car driven by his driver.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n At about 1 a.m. on the same night, Asiedu and Bosso, armed with a catapult, a cutter and a sharp knife, went to the legislator\u2019s house.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n On entering the house, Asiedu picked a ladder and climbed onto a porch on the top floor and entered the MP\u2019s bedroom through a window, whilst Mr. Danquah-Adu was sleeping.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n The MP consequently held the knife, and Asiedu pulled it through the MP\u2019s hand, making a deep cut in his palm.<\/p>\n The legislator, who bled profusely, fell by his bed, after which Asiedu stabbed him several times on his right chest and neck.<\/p>\n On realizing that the MP was dying, Asiedu left the room and took with him three iPhones<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Having been alerted to the impending danger, Bosso took to his heels, leaving Asiedu behind.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n<\/div>\n \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![\"Jb](\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/94483654.295.jpg\" "\\"Jb")
The late J.B. Danquah-Adu<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n