JB’s ‘killer’ fit and sound to stand trial – Doctors

A medical examination conducted on self-confessed killer of the Member of Parliament for Abuakwa South Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu Daniel Asiedu has revealed he is fit and sound to stand trial.

Daniel Asiedu’s incoherent utterances made his lawyer Augustine’s Obuor made a request to the court for him to be medically examined.

The report from the Accra Psychiatric Hospital to the court by Medical Consultant Samuel Ohene today said the accused person is mentally sound to stand trial after four test were conducted on him.

His lawyers had claimed his attitude and behaviour ever since his arrest meant he is not mentally fit to stand trial.

But after the court had ordered for his examination, a consultant at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital revealed that all the four thorough psychiatric examinations did not show any sign of a mental disorder.

PLEADED NOT GUILTY

Following the report, their pleas were taken after the charges of conspiracy, robbery and murder were read to them.

Both Asiedu and Vincent Bosso pleaded not guilty.

The case has been adjourned to July 11, for the jury to be empanelled for the full trial to commence.

Facts of the Case

The facts of the case, as presented by the prosecution, were that the MP, Mr Danquah-Adu, lived with his family in a one-storey house at Shiashie, near East Legon, in Accra, while Asiedu and Bosso lived at Agbogbloshie, also in Accra.

About 11:40 p.m. on February 8, 2016, the MP arrived home and went to bed in a room located on the first floor of his house.

About 1 a.m. that same night, Asiedu and Bosso, armed with a catapult, a cutter and a sharp knife, went to the legislator’s house.

Bosso is said to have assisted Asiedu to enter the house by scaling the wall on the blind side of a security man who was fast asleep. On entering the house, Asiedu climbed onto a porch on the top floor with a ladder and entered the MP’s bedroom through a window.

While Asiedu was searching the room, the MP woke up and held him. There ensued a struggle, during which Asiedu stabbed the MP in the right chest above the breast. The MP consequently held the knife, and Asiedu pulled it through the MP’s hand, making a deep cut in his palm.

The legislator, who bled profusely, fell by his bed, after which Asiedu stabbed him several times on his right chest and neck.

On realizing that the MP was dying, Asiedu left the room and took with him three iPhones.

Meanwhile, the struggle between the MP and Asiedu had drawn the attention of the security man in the house, who alerted other security men in the neighbourhood.

Having realised the impending danger, Bosso took to his heels, leaving Asiedu behind. However, Asiedu managed to descend from the top of the house and jumped over the electric fencing on the walls of the house into an adjoining house and escaped.