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A complete double file on Professor Emmanuel Yaw Benneh, a law professor who was assassinated in Agyriganor, was sent to the public prosecutor for opinion.
Inspector Ebenezer Teye-Okuffo, who heads the prosecution, said the police were therefore awaiting directives from the GA office.
Two suspects, namely Ebenezer Quaisie and Opambour Agya Badu Nkansah, are being held for their involvement in the murder of the law professor.
At the Kaneshie District Court, Mr. Larbi Amoah, Opambour’s lawyer, complained about the type of treatment given to his client who had undergone surgery.
Mr Amoah said that after Opambour’s surgery he had to get a bandage every three days, but it was not done.
He recalled that in the past week the defendants had not gone to get a bandage because they claimed there was no money.
The lawyer said it was Opambour’s mother who donated the money for her son to be sent to hospital for his wound to be healed.
The investigator explained that due to lack of money, Opambour could not be sent regularly to heal his wounds.
Inspector Okuffo explained that it was the crime officer who was responsible for delivering the money for the accused’s wound to be treated.
The trial has been adjourned until February 24.
In the last session, police substituted and filed new charges against the two suspects allegedly involved in the murder of the law professor who had been murdered in cold blood at his Agyiriganor residence in Accra.
In the new charge sheet, Ebenezer Kwayisi aka Junior, a 25-year-old apprentice mason has now been charged with murder.
Opambour Agya Badu Nkansah, also known as Enoch, and a Kwayisi were jointly detained for conspiracy to commit a mental crime of murder.
It was after the main suspects James Nana Womba died in police custody.
The pleadings of all the accused were not accepted and they were taken into police custody.
The prosecution told the court chaired by Ms. Ama Adomako Kwakye that Akosua Benneh-Akuffo, the complainant is the niece of the late Professor Benneh, the deceased in this case, while James Nana Womba, the prime suspect, now deceased was a cleaner in the house of the deceased at Agyiringanor.
He said that Womba’s accomplices, Opambour Agya Badu Nkansah is unemployed and lives in Ashaiman, Accra and Ebenezer Kwayisi, an apprentice mason, also resides in Kasoa.
The prosecution said that on September 12 last year at around 8 a.m. the deceased was found dead in a pool of blood in a hallway leading to his bedroom, lying on his stomach with his hands tied behind him with a white rope and his legs also tied with a green rope just below the knees.
He said examination of the victim’s body revealed multiple marks of assault on the face with a cloth partially inserted into his mouth.
The prosecution said police found a hand glove, a white rope with blood stains and blood stains on the walls at the scene.
The prosecution said the police crime scene management team examined the scene and raised a blood-contaminated thumb print visible on the wall near where the victim’s body lay.
The prosecution said the body was taken to the police hospital morgue for preservation and autopsy.
Inspector Teye-Okuffo said on September 21 of last year a postmortem examination was performed on the deceased’s body and the pathologist gave the immediate cause of death as “asphyxiation, strangulation and suspected homicide” .
He said on September 13 of last year, James Nana Womba, now deceased, was arrested for investigation and his fingerprints were taken and sent to the fingerprint section at CID headquarters for examination.
He said the result of the siege indicated that the fingerprints captured at the crime scene were identical to those of the deceased, Womba.
The prosecution told the court that Womba confessed to the crime during the investigation and mentioned Nkansah and Kwayisi as his accomplices who were later arrested in their various hiding places for investigation.
Inspector Teye-Okuffo informed the court that the investigation revealed that during the month of August of last year, Womba contacted Opambour and made a plan to assassinate the victim in his house, so Womba instructed Opambour to recruit a gang to carry out the plan.
He said that two weeks later, the deceased, Womba changed his mind and contacted Kwayisi to help him execute the plan.
The prosecution told the court that Ebenezer Kwayisi agreed and visited Womba who both discussed in detail how the plan was going to be executed and on September 10 last year the accused went to the victim’s home and executed his plan by killing the professor.
The prosecution said the defendants, during their investigation, warned of statements of how each of them conspired with Womba to kill the victim.
Source: GNA
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