The Accra High Court last week dismissed the defense mounted by Kofi Nyame, one of the 14 people accused of killing Major Maxwell Mahama in Denkyira Obuasi (New Obuasi) in the Ashanti Region in 2017.
The accused has opened his defense and started his testimony before the court and said that he was drunk when he threw the stone at the deceased and therefore he could not say that he hit the last soldier.
The accused was asked to continue his testimony but his lawyer, Theophilus Donkor, prayed the court to adjourn the case so that he could have a conference with his client as prison officers did not allow him access to the accused.
The court presided over by Justice Mariama Owusu, a Court of Appeal Judge sitting as an additional High Court Judge, rejected the request for adjournment as lawyers have been representing the defendants during this period and have had several conferences with the defendants. even before opening the defense.
There was a back-and-forth between the court and counsel and the court decided to adjourn the case for an hour to allow counsel to have a conference with the client before the case was recalled.
Mr. Donkor refused the offer and after going back and forth to the court he was accused of wanting to stop calling.
The court, therefore, dismissed Kofi Nyame’s defense, meaning that he will not fight the charges brought by the prosecution.
The court then adjourned the case yesterday for the fourth defendant to present his defense but the case was adjourned again until February 23, 2023, because a member of the jury was not in the health field.
The Office of the Attorney General on May 16, 2022, closed the case in the trial of 14 people who allegedly killed Major Maxwell Mahama in Denkyira Obuasi (New Obuasi) in May 2017.
Major Mahama was brutally murdered while on detachment duty with some military officers in Denkyira Obuasi.
He was the captain of a 31-member military team sent to the town to guard the property of the C&G Mining Company as a result of illegal mining activities in the area.
14 people all pleaded not guilty to the charges leveled against them even though the state prosecutor said the accused, except for the regional Assemblyman, William Baah, were captured on video during the crime.
The prosecution during the presentation of the case called 14 witnesses who gave different accounts of what happened that day and what they saw.
Frances Mullen Ansah, the Chief State Prosecutor, during one of the proceedings leading the investigatorsstate, Frances Mullen Ansah, the Chief State Prosecutor, during one of the proceedings led the investigators like the evidence when the court played a shocking video of the person accused of lynching the deceased.
Source: Daily Guide
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