{"id":237307,"date":"2024-10-22T23:05:28","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T23:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/10\/22\/kasoa-ritual-murder-case-absentee-juror-fined\/"},"modified":"2024-10-22T23:05:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T23:05:28","slug":"kasoa-ritual-murder-case-absentee-juror-fined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/10\/22\/kasoa-ritual-murder-case-absentee-juror-fined\/","title":{"rendered":"Kasoa ritual murder case: Absentee juror fined"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"article-text\">\n                       \n                        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Accra High Court has fined an absentee juror in the Kasoa Teenagers Ritual Murder case.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the absence of Harry Don Atipo, the juror is said to have held the entire court to ransom and hence was fined GHC1,200.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The court presided over by Justice Lydia Osei Marfo, a Court of Appeal Judge sitting with additional responsibility as a High Court Judge, said the case was due for summing up and judgement.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, due to the absence of Atipo, the matter had to be adjourned to Thursday, October 24, 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Atipo is expected to pay the amount before the next adjourned date.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, his colleagues (jurors) agreed to forfeit their sitting and transport allowances.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the matter was called today, the foreman of the juror, informed the court about the absence of\u00a0 Atipo, who he said was out of the jurisdiction.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the foreman,\u00a0 Atipo had promised to be in court on Thursday, October 24, 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0The trial judge noted that at the last court sitting, Atipo created the impression that he would be available today.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo, he has succeeded in holding all of us to ransom, people take everybody for granted in this country. Mr. Atipo did not give any excuse for his absence,\u201d the court said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Samuel Atuah, defence counsel for the 18-year-old teenager, prayed the court to waive the fine of the juror, saying that could also prevent Atipo from attending court at the next adjourned date and same could affect the trial.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The trial judge, however, informed the defence counsel that she was \u201cworking according to the law\u201d and she had warned the jurors about absenteeism.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The accused persons, an 18-year-old and his accomplice, a 15-year-old, have been accused of killing 10-year-old Ishamel Abdalla at Kasoa for rituals.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The teenagers are facing charges of conspiracy and murder.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n                <p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>      \n               \n <!-- Post Tags -->\n                \n\n                        \n\n    \n                                 \n                                             \n                    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Accra High Court has fined an absentee juror in the Kasoa Teenagers Ritual Murder case.\u00a0 In the absence of Harry Don Atipo, the juror is said to have held the entire court to ransom and hence was fined GHC1,200.\u00a0 The court presided over by Justice Lydia Osei Marfo, a Court of Appeal Judge sitting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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