Big Drama In Court

A 22-year-old unemployed youth, Kwame Mensah who recently escaped arrest after murdering a certain Kwadwo Adutwum in cold blood at Nkawie Panin in the Atwima district, in Ashanti, last Thursday caused a stir when he appeared before a Kumasi circuit tribunal to answer his charge.

Immediately Mensah was ordered into the dock, he started weeping uncontrollably, gnashing his teeth, and went on his knees, praying the court for leniency in dealing with him.

According to him, he cruelly murdered his bosom friend the deceased, as if he was under the influence of an evil spirit.

Charged with murder, the suspect pleaded guilty, but prayed the court, chaired by Mr. Vicent C. Senu, for leniency as he did not kill his friend intentionally.

The tribunal chairman, accordingly remanded Mensah into Police custody and adjourned the case to October 24, 2002.

Mensah told the court that prior to the incident, he had dreamt that he had engaged a friend in a fierce fight.

“I was, therefore, surprised when I realised that I had killed someone” he told the court.

Narrating the facts of the case, the prosecutor, chief Inspector of police, Mr. Fabin Kwaku Afesi, explained that the suspect and the deceased were intimate friends who live in the same room.

He adduced in court that on September 12, 2002 at about 9:00 p.m while the deceased was asleep, the suspect threatened to kill somebody.

“Our investigations revealed that Mensah then picked a sharp cutlass and subsequently inflicted deep cuts on the head and hands of the deceased till he succumbed’. He told the court.

Sensing danger, he continued that the suspect absconded until he was arrested by the police in Accra last week.