Defense lawyers end the cross-examination of the third prosecution witness in the lynching case

The defense lawyers involved in the trial of the alleged killers of the late Major Maxwell Mahama ended Wednesday their cross-examination of the third witness of the prosecution.

The state will introduce its fourth witness when the court resumes its hearings.

The court presided over by Judge Mariama Owusu remanded the case on October 8, 2018.

The fourteen accused are tried for the death of the late Major Maxwell Mahama, a police officer. 5th Infantry Battalion at Burma camp, which was on duty at Denkyira-Obuasi, when on May 29, 2017, it was lynched by some residents, who would have taken it for an armed robber because he had a pistol in his back pocket. 19659002] The mob ignored his constant plea that he was an officer of Ghana's armed forces.

The accused are William Baah, the badembler of Denkyira Oboasi, Bernard Asamoah aka Daddy, Kofi Nyarko aka Abortion, Akwasi Baah, Kwame Tu Ffour, Joseph Appiah Kubi, Michael Anim and Bismarck Donkor [19659002] Others are John Bosie, Akwasi Baah, Charles Kwaning, Emmanuel Badu, Bismarck Abanga and Kwadwo Anima.

The witness, Kwame Adjei, a farmer during cross-examination Mr. George Bernard Shaw, William Baah's lawyer and three other people asked the witness that he had seen Baah on a motorcycle whose he answered in the affirmative

When asked if, the witness had met Baah, the member of the badembly, he answered no.

Counsel then asked where the link with his client was, but the witness said after meeting the late major, he also saw two of the people with whom Baah was riding on the motorcycle, from where his conclusion they moved because of the cry of the thief.

million. Shaw asked the witness that when the motorcycles pbaded near the place where he was selling the fuel, did he see a police vehicle pbad and he said yes the alleged murder that he saw the police of Diaso pbad in the canton of Denkyira-Oboasi.

It was asked if what gave him the confidence to say that it was the alleged murder that had caused the arrival of the police in the area,

The witness told the court that when he met the late major, he thought that he was an armed robber, because of the rifle he was holding.

At the last postponed date, the witness who spoke through the intermediary of an interpreter said: "I was first detained at the Diaso police station and brought to Korle, taken to a police station and later sent to Nsawam Prison. "

Source: GNA