Suspected Murder Of Josephine Asante: Case Adjourned To July 3

The case in which four accused persons are before the Tema District Court over the murder of Mrs Josephine Asante has been adjourned to Thursday, July 3, 2025.

The accused are (1) Richard Kwabena Kwakye, aka Kwabena Boateng (2) Dominic Owusu (3) Christian Adjei and (4) Frederick Owusu Oppong, aka Kojo Owusu.

Mrs Asante, then Marketing and Public Affairs Manager at the Tema Port of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) was found dead on Sunday January 13, 2019 in her home at Emefs Hillview Estates, near Afienya, in the Ningo Prampram District of the Greater Accra Region.

The investigation of the case travelled from the Emefs Police Station, Tema Regional Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Homicide Unit and presently the Cold Case Unit, all at the CID Headquarters in Accra.

On Thursday June 5, 2025 when the case, Suit Number B1/13/2023 was called at 9:06am the Prosecution told the court, presided over by Her Worship Benedicta Antwi (Esq), that since it is a suspected murder case, they had forwarded the docket for the forensic just three months ago, and that the prosecution was awaiting the results.

Her Worship asked if the accused persons were on bail and the response was yes, followed with when, which answer the Prosecution gave as last year on separate days. The Judge then asked who was the state attorney in charge of the matter?

The Prosecution responded: I told the court earlier that we are waiting for forensic results, which has been forwarded to the Attorney General’s Office. He prayed that the case be stood down momentarily for him to call the investigator.

The case was recalled at 11:30am with all the accused persons present.

Nuhu Umar, who was holding brief for Baba Jamal, represented the 3rd accused person.

The Prosecutor then told the court that “I enquired from the investigator who informed me that the duplicate docket was forwarded to serious crimes registry.”

The state attorney in charge is Senior State Attorney, Joshua Sackey. According to the prosecution, the latter intimated to them that he was in charge of the docket and that was working on the advice.

The Prosecution prayed for a date in early August, however, the Court adjourned the case to Thursday July 3, 2025.

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