The Madina District Court has freed Mam Yandey Joof, the girlfriend of the late Bennet Agyekum Adomah, Chief Executive Officer of Kikibees Restaurant and Lounge.
This follows advice from the Office of the Attorney General which asked that the accused who was charged with one count of murder should be discharged.
Mam Yandey Joof was arrested and put before the court for allegedly killing her boyfriend on October 8, 2023, in her apartment at Ogbojo in Accra.
Facts presented by Inspector Jameson Awumey revealed that the deceased and the suspect had been 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 6.00 pm.
The deceased, according to court documents, took some rest and later in the night at about 8.00 pm, left the house to the Kikibees Restaurant and Lounge at East Legon.
He left the restaurant at 12.30 am on October 8, 2023, to visit the suspect in her apartment at Ogbojo in Accra, indicating that “later in the night at about 1.30 am 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. The investigation is ongoing,” the fact added.
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.
Upon arresting the suspect, 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, an Accra High Court presided over by Justice Lydia Osei Marfo, granted her bail in the sum of GH¢200,000 with one surety to be justified after the 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.
Meanwhile, the District Court had been waiting for the advice of the Attorney General to determine which charges to prefer against the accused person.
But in Court on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, the prosecutor told the court presided over by Her Worship Susana Nyakotey that the Attorney General’s advice was ready.
The prosecutor revealed that the Attorney General had asked that Mam Yandey Joof should be discharged.
Her Worship Susana Nyakotey subsequently discharged the accused.
Source:myrepubliconline