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General News on Friday, January 25, 2019
Source: dailyguideafrica.com
2019-01-25
The defense team in the case involving Gregory Afoko filed his case
The trial of Gregory Afoko, accused of murdering New Patriotic Party (NPP) President Adams Mahama in the Upper East region, is coming to an end with the defense team filing his case.
As a result, the Court, presided over by Judge Lawrence L. Mensah, Judge of the Court of Appeal sitting as Deputy Judge of the High Court, ordered the defense to file his speech on or before 8 February after which the prosecution will also file its findings. answer by February 19th.
The defense would have the opportunity to address the court on February 20, while the prosecution would turn on February 21, 2019 before the court summarized the whole proceedings before the jury.
The prosecution told the court that Afoko, who appeared in court since 2016, had poured acid on the executive of the NPP, which has now pbaded away.
The state, headed by Mathew Amponsah, an attorney general, called 14 witnesses, including Hajia Zeinabu Adams, the wife of the deceased, to testify against Afoko.
He opened his defense last December and denied the charges against him.
His elder brother, Isaac Afoko, the first defense witness, corroborated the accused's testimony that he was at his house the very night the incident occurred and that he was there. It had nothing to do with it.
The accused had to wait for a final testimony from the last witness. However, the defense team was unable to locate him and subsequently kept his promise to close the case yesterday.
Benedicta Antwi, who pleaded for the defense of Osafo Buabeng, told the court that the second witness was not available.
Acid bath
The late Adams Mahama was allegedly attacked with a sulfuric acid substance confirmed on May 20, 2015 in Bolgatanga, in the far eastern region.
He was transported to the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital but died later.
He reportedly mentioned the name of Gregory Afoko and Asabke Alangdi, who is on the run, like those who poured him acid.
Dr. Lawrence Edusei, a pathologist at Korle-Bu University Hospital, in his testimony before the High Court in Accra, revealed that the death of Adams Mahama had died unnaturally because of many burns caused by acid.
Dr. Lawrence Edusei, who performed the autopsy of the deceased, said that the person responsible for the NPP, who died recently, died of an electric shock to the lungs, due to severe burns.
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