Two unit committee members charged with murder

Kumasi, July 3, GNA - Two members of the Boadi Community Neighbourhood Watch Committee, in Kumasi, have been ordered to be held on remand by a Kumasi Circuit Court for the alleged murder of a teenager. The pleas of Adu Gyamfi, 44, and Kwabena James, 37, were not taken as the case has been referred to the Attorney General and Justice Ministry for advice. Police Chief Inspector Isaac Mensah-Appenteng told the Court presided by Mr Justice Adjei Frimpong that on May 29, the KNUST Police received information that someone had been killed at the Madam Catherine Junction, near Boadi. They proceeded to the scene and found 16-year old Adjetey Sowah, lying dead under a pile of broken cement blocks with a locally manufactured pistol, with live and used cartridges on his side. Whilst there, one Jacob Tetteh Mensah came to identify the deceased as his grandson and during investigation, it came out that, on May 25, at about 2230 hours, a married couple: Michael Afrifa Adjei and Mary Bonsu, invited the accused persons to pick and hand over to the police, the deceased, who they suspected was a thief. The two went for the boy in the house of the couple and as they were escorting him to the Police Station Gyamfi shot him with a single barrelled gun. The prosecution said the boy survived the gunshot but the two finished him off, battering the head with cement blocks. Armed with the information, the two were arrested on June 30, to assist the Police in their investigations.

Kumasi, July 3, GNA - Two members of the Boadi Community Neighbourhood Watch Committee, in Kumasi, have been ordered to be held on remand by a Kumasi Circuit Court for the alleged murder of a teenager. The pleas of Adu Gyamfi, 44, and Kwabena James, 37, were not taken as the case has been referred to the Attorney General and Justice Ministry for advice. Police Chief Inspector Isaac Mensah-Appenteng told the Court presided by Mr Justice Adjei Frimpong that on May 29, the KNUST Police received information that someone had been killed at the Madam Catherine Junction, near Boadi. They proceeded to the scene and found 16-year old Adjetey Sowah, lying dead under a pile of broken cement blocks with a locally manufactured pistol, with live and used cartridges on his side. Whilst there, one Jacob Tetteh Mensah came to identify the deceased as his grandson and during investigation, it came out that, on May 25, at about 2230 hours, a married couple: Michael Afrifa Adjei and Mary Bonsu, invited the accused persons to pick and hand over to the police, the deceased, who they suspected was a thief. The two went for the boy in the house of the couple and as they were escorting him to the Police Station Gyamfi shot him with a single barrelled gun. The prosecution said the boy survived the gunshot but the two finished him off, battering the head with cement blocks. Armed with the information, the two were arrested on June 30, to assist the Police in their investigations.