{"id":11763,"date":"2014-04-08T16:29:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T16:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=11763"},"modified":"2014-04-08T16:29:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T16:29:02","slug":"asylum-down-shooting-deceased-family-demand-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=11763","title":{"rendered":"Asylum down shooting: Deceased family demand justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1396970386115_2958\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/gavel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3897\" alt=\"gavel\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/gavel.jpg\" width=\"530\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/gavel.jpg 530w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/gavel-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a>Family of the late William Sarpong who died as a result of a shooting spree between the police and a suspected gang of armed robbers at Asylum-Down in Accra has headed to court demanding justice.<\/p>\n<p>The family is seeking justice in the Court Room five of the Accra Magistrate Court presided over by Her Worship, Miss Mavis Kwainoe.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1396970386115_2976\">The family suspected the deceased death was shrouded in secrecy for which reason the exact cause should be established at all cost.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased mother (name withheld) broke down in uncontrollable tears on Tuesday April 8, 2014 when the case was adjourned to April 17 without any assigned reasons.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1396970386115_2986\">She could not understand why the case which was supposed to be heard for the first time on Monday April 7, 2014 was for the second time adjourned.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1396970386115_2985\">She told <strong>Citi News<\/strong> she was heading to the Attorney Generals Department to demand a fast track of the case.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1396970386115_2984\">A family friend, Dr. Med Kwaku Sakyi-Obuobi, specialist Thoracic Surgeon who was in court in solidarity fumed over the adjournment of the case without any tangible reasons.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1396970386115_2982\">\u00a0He requested to have a personal meeting with the Presiding Judge but his request was turned down.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1396970386115_2981\">By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1396970386115_2980\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family of the late William Sarpong who died as a result of a shooting spree between the police and a suspected gang of armed robbers at Asylum-Down in Accra has headed to court demanding justice. The family is seeking justice in the Court Room five of the Accra Magistrate Court presided over by Her Worship, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-11763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}