The alleged murderer of the MP for Abuakwa North Joseph Boakye Danquah Adu has been remanded into police custody for further investigation by an Accra District Magistrate Court.
The unemployed 19 year old accused Daniel Asiedu was not legally represented in court He has been charged with murder and his plea was not also taken. The late MP was last. Tuesday murdered in his home at Shiashi at East Legon in Accra.
According to the prosecutor, Superintendent Francis Baah, the deceased arrived in his home about 11:40am and retired to bed in his room located upstairs.
At about 1am the accused ,who was armed with a catapult,a cutter and a sharp knife entered the house of the late MP through an iron fenced at the blind side of the security man who was fast asleep.
Asiedu, allegedly picked a ladder in the house and climbed to the pouch of the top floor and entered the bed room through the window while the deceased was sleeping.He allegedly begun to search the room, but the late MP worked up and held him so he stabbed him on his right chest above the breast .
Mr Boakye Dankwa held the knife and shouted for help but no one came to his rescue. Asiedu also sustained deep cut in his palm when he attempted to pull the knife from the MP’s hands The deceased who was then bleeding profusely fell by his bed helpless and Asiedu stabbed him again on the right chest below the breast.
Realizing that the MP was almost dead ,Asiedu allegedly took away his two phones and a tablet and left him to his fate. He managed to escape by descending from the top to the back of the house and climbed one of the poly tanks in the house and jumeped over the electric fence into the adjoining house.
Daniel Asiedu is to reappear on the 1st of next month.
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