A High Court in Accra has rescheduled the hearing of an application for bail on behalf of Daniel Asiedu, aka Sexy Don Don, the young man accused of robbing and killing the then Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North, the late JB Danquah-Adu.
This was after his lawyer, Yaw Dankwa told the court yesterday that he was yet to file the affidavit in support of the motion.
“I’m preparing the affidavit in support. I believe that by the next adjourned date, I would have filed and the Attorney General would have been served,” Mr. Dankwa told the court yesterday.
Justice Kizita Naa Koowa Quarshie, the presiding judge, adjourned the case to March 25, 2025, to hear the application.
The court is yet to empanel a jury for the retrial of the accused following a hung jury in the first trial.
Daniel Asiedu is set to face a retrial after a seven-member jury, on December 4, 2024, returned a 4:3 not guilty verdict on two charges of robbery and murder.
Four of the jurors found him not guilty for both robbery and murder, while the remaining three found him guilty for the two offences.
This resulted in a hung jury, thereby requiring a retrial by a new jury as demanded by section 286 of Act 30.
Daniel Asiedu was standing trial over the murder of the late MP at his residence at Shiashie, near East Legon on February 9, 2016.
The prosecution, led by Sefakor Batse, Principal State Attorney, called eight (8) witnesses in a bid to prove the guilt of the accused persons.
During the first trial, the court on July 18, 2022, admitted documents in which Daniel Asiedu admitted to stabbing the late MP during a confrontation when he went to his Shiashie residence with the intention to rob.
The accused, in a startling admission, demonstrated how he went into the late MP’s bedroom through his window in a robbery that led to his death.
The admission is contained in a video recorded during the interrogation of the accused, as well as videos of a reconstruction of the crime scene in the late MP’s house, and was admitted by an Accra High Court where the accused is standing trial for murder.
Daniel Asiedu, in his defence, denied the crime and claimed he had never been to the home of the MP until the day the police took him there for a reconstruction of the crime scene.
He even claimed his nickname is Gucci Young Star, and that Sexy Don Don was given to him by Dr. Akuffo Dampare after his arrest.
He stated that, all the things he said, including his confession, were said under duress because the police tortured him to say those things.
BY Gibril Abdul Razak