Psychiatrists clear Daniel Asiedu to face trial for JB Danquah Adu’s murder

The main suspect in the murder case of the former Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North constituency, Daniel Asiedu, has been cleared by psychiatrists to continue to face trial.

The suspect was declared fit by the Accra Psychiatric Hospital after a full psychiatric examination.

The report by the medical experts clears the way for the full trial to begin after several months of delay.

Lawyers of Daniel Asiedu made the request for the examination claiming that their client could possibly be suffering from some mental ailment due to certain comments and behaviours he had been exhibiting.

The lead lawyer, Augustine Obour narrated one incident when his client called him directing him to be in charge of serving drinks at his coronation as a Chief in Akuapem.

Asiedu and his alleged accomplice Vincent Bossu are standing trial for murder and conspiracy to commit murder for allegedly murdering JB Danquah-Adu at his residence at Shiashie near Accra on February 9, 2016.

They have since pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The provisional facts of the prosecution were that the former MP lived with his family in a one-storey house at Shiashie, near East Legon, a suburb of Accra, while Asiedu and Bosso lived at Agbogbloshie, also in Accra.

About 11:40 p.m. on February 8, 2016, the MP was chauffeured home in his private car.

The driver handed over the ignition keys of the car to Mr Danquah-Adu and left for home, after which the MP retired to bed in a room located on the first floor of his house.

At about 1 a.m. that same night, Asiedu and Bosso, armed with a catapult, a cutter and a sharp knife, went to the legislator’s house.

Bosso is said to have assisted Asiedu to enter the house by scaling the wall on the blind side of a security man who was fast asleep. On entering the house, Asiedu picked a ladder and climbed onto a porch on the top floor and entered the MP’s bedroom through a window while Mr Danquah-Adu was sleeping.

While Asiedu was searching the room, the MP woke up and held him. A struggle ensued during which Asiedu stabbed the MP in the right chest above the breast. The MP consequently held the knife and Asiedu pulled it through the former’s hand, leaving a deep cut in his palm.

The legislator bled profusely and fell by his bed, after which Asiedu stabbed him several times in his right chest and neck.

On realising that the MP was dying, Asiedu left the room and took with him three iPhones and absconded with his accomplice.

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