The suspected killer of J.B Danquah, the former Member of Parliament for Abuakwa-North, has revealed in court that he is being haunted by the ghost of the late MP.
Daniel Asiedu stated in court Tuesday, March 10, that he was engaged by some people to kill the late J.B Danquah and was paid GHc20, 000 to commit the crime.
“I can’t sleep so I want to speak the truth so that this case will be over,” he told the court presided over by Justice Lydia Osei Marfo.
He added in court that the second accused person, Vincent Bosso, is not part of the alleged plot to kill the MP.
Background
Mr Danquah-Adu was murdered at his residence in Accra on February 9, 2016.
The provisional facts of the prosecution were that the former MP lived with his family in a one-storey house at Shiashie, near East Legon, a suburb of Accra, while Asiedu and Bosso lived at Agbogbloshie, also in Accra.
About 11:40 p.m. on February 8, 2016, the MP was chauffeured home in his private car.
The driver handed over the ignition keys of the car to Mr Danquah-Adu and left for home, after which the MP retired to bed in a room located on the first floor of his house.
At 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 picked a ladder and climbed onto a porch on the top floor and entered the MP’s bedroom through a window while Mr Danquah-Adu was sleeping.
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 former’s hand, leaving a deep cut in his palm.
The legislator bled profusely and fell by his bed, after which Asiedu stabbed him several times in his right chest and neck.
On realising that the MP was dying, Asiedu left the room and took with him three iPhones and absconded with his accomplice.
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