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General News on Thursday, January 31, 2019
Source: Graphic.com.gh
2019-01-31
Samuel Udoetuk Wills
In the Takoradi District Court, Samuel Udoetuk Wills, a 28-year-old Nigerian suspected of kidnapping three girls, was not invited to appear on Tuesday.
It was the second consecutive day that the case was called without the suspect appearing.
The Daily Graphic's checks, however, showed that the suspect was still in detention to help investigate the abducted girls.
Wills was brought before the court of law chaired by Mr Michael Ampadu for escaping from legal custody, for illegally damaging the police cell and resisting arrest, for which he had pleaded not guilty.
He was scheduled to appear in court last Monday, but to the great disappointment of a large crowd who had besieged the court premises to see him, he was not brought to court.
The case was sent back last Tuesday to allow the suspect to open his defense, but once again, Wills was not taken to court to the chagrin of the crowd that was in outside the court.
When the case was called yesterday, the police prosecutor only requested an adjournment on February 11, 2019.
Escape
Wills escaped through one of the ventilation windows of the cell in which he was kept around 6:25 pm. December 30, 2018, after using a hacksaw blade to cut the iron rods used to secure the windows.
On January 3, 2019, the police again arrested him in an unfinished building in Kansawurodo, a suburb of Sekondi / Takoradi.
At the scene of the new arrest, the police found a dress, a headgear and a pair of rubber slippers that one of the abducted victims wore the day of his disappearance.
Context
Wills was sent to court on December 24, 2018, charged with alleged kidnapping, and was placed in custody.
He escaped from the cell on 30 December 2018, was arrested again on 3 January this year and appeared in court on the same day and was remanded in custody.
He again appeared in court on January 9 and 16, respectively, and was charged with reappearing yesterday.
The case has since been postponed to 11 February.
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