The late Bennet Agyekum Adomah
Mam Yandey Joof, the girlfriend of the late Bennet Agyekum Adomah, Chief Executive Officer of Kikibees Restaurant and Lounge has been discharged by the Madina District Court where she was being committed for his murder.
This follows an advice from the Office of the Attorney General which asked that the accused who was charged with one count of murder should be discharged.
Joof was arrested and dragged before the court for allegedly killing her boyfriend, the late Adomah, who had visited her at Ogbojo in Accra where he is said to have become “hyper and started behaving strangely and throwing about things in the room amidst shouting that some people were chasing him.”
The 40-year-old was said to have been found in a pool of blood and had a cut on his thigh when he was rushed to the hospital, but died a few moments later.
She was remanded by the court and her plea was reserved as the court did not have the jurisdiction to neither grant bail nor take a plea in a murder charge.
On December 5, 2023, a High Court in Accra presided over by Justice Lydia Osei Marfo, granted her bail in the sum of GH¢200,000 with one surety to be justified.
The court granted the bail largely because the final autopsy report, attached to the application filed by Muniru Kassim, showed that the deceased died from severe injury to the head following a fall due to alcohol intoxication.
The District Court had been waiting for the advice of the Attorney General which would determine which charges to prefer against the accused person, whether the case needed further investigation or the accused ought to the discharged.
When the case was called yesterday, the prosecutor told the court that the Attorney General’s advice was ready and it had asked that Joof should be discharged.
The court, presided over by Her Worship Susana Nyakotey, subsequently discharged the accused who burst into tears in the courtroom.
Prosecution’s Facts
The prosecution’s brief facts, presented by Inspector Jameson Awumey at the beginning of the case said, the deceased and the suspect were in an amorous relationship for the past three years.
He told the court that the deceased had travelled abroad about three months ago and returned to Ghana on October 7, 2023, and went to his residence at East Legon from the airport around 6.00pm.
The deceased, according to court documents, took some rest and later in the night at about 8.00pm, left the house to the Kikibees Restaurant and Lounge at East Legon.
He left the restaurant at 12.30am on October 8, 2023, to visit the suspect in her apartment at Ogbojo in Accra, indicating that “later in the night at about 1.30am the deceased suddenly became hyper and started behaving strangely and throwing about things in the room amidst shouting that some people were chasing him.”
The incident woke other tenants in the house, and the suspect rang a close friend of the deceased and informed him to come to her apartment to assist her, but the friend came and found the deceased lying in a pool of blood in the kitchen throwing his hands about.
The court heard that “the tenants in the house assisted them and took him to DEL Hospital at East Legon, but he was pronounced dead shortly on arrival.”
The facts continued that the death was reported to the police and the body was conveyed to the Police Hospital mortuary for preservation and autopsy.
“During inspection at the scene, pieces of broken ceramic glass with blood stains were found in the apartment. The body was inspected and a cut was found on the left thigh of the deceased. Investigation is ongoing,” the fact added.
BY Gibril Abdul Razak