Crack detectives of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service have made a breakthrough into the murder of Professor Yaw Benneh of the University of Ghana, Legon.
The detectives, who were drawn from the Homicide Unit and Crime Scene Management Team, both at the CID Headquarters, and backed by the Accra Regional CID, have been able to achieve this feat with scientific assistance.
A Kaneshie District Court yesterday, presided over by Her Honour Mrs Eleanor Kakra Barnes Botchway, it emerged that James Nana Wamber, a domestic worker of the deceased, confessed to the police of aiding in the killing of the University of Ghana Law Professor.
According to the Prosecutor, Inspector Ebenezer Teye-Okuffo, James Wamber confessed his involvement in the alleged murder of the 66 year old academician.
James disclosed to the police that the gruesome murder was perpetuated with three others, with two of them currently at large.
Inspector Teye-Okuffo then pleaded with the court to substitute the old charge sheet with a new one, and the criminal charges dropped against three of the suspects.
As a result, Christian Pobee, Isaac Botchwey and Adams Mensah Mansur, who were first implicated with James, had been discharged by the court on the account that the prosecution could not find any criminal charges against them.
Meanwhile, one Opambour Agya Badu Nkansah, now the second accused person in the murder case, according to the prosecution, was mentioned by James Wamber as an accomplice.
James Wamber and Opambour are facing charges of conspiracy to commit murder and murder.
Inspector Teye-Okuffo, reading the police fact sheet in court, said the late Prof. Benneh was allegedly murdered in his private residence at Adjiringanor, in Accra.
He said the deceased was found dead with a piece cloth in his mouth, with his hands and legs tied with a rope.
Although Inspector Teye-Okuffo prayed the court to give the police three weeks to enable them search for the two suspects currently on the run, the judge gave 14 days adjournment.
Mrs Botchway warned journalists against misrepresenting the court in their reportage, otherwise they would be banned from reporting from the court.
She said this by pointing to a reportage that misquoted the court that the accused person’s plea had not been taken.
The District Court Judge also educated the journalists, who she ordered to stand up, that the right way to address her is Her Honour and not Her Worship.
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