The man accused of the murder of the former Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North, Mr J.B. Danquah-Adu on Friday informed the Accra District Court that his cell mate in custody had threatened to kill him.<\/p>\n
Daniel Asiedu, alias Sexy Don Don, made the revelation after the presiding magistrate, Mr Stephen Owusu, had asked him how he was faring in custody.<\/p>\n
According to him, the fellow inmate, whom he described as \u2018a Nigerian guy\u2019, persistently threatened and provoked him but he (Asiedu) did not retaliate.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was just disturbing me but because I have given my life to Christ, I did not retaliate,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
The accused person, who appeared in court carrying two Bibles, further said that the disturbances and threats from his fellow cell mate got to the extent that he (Asiedu) had to request a change in his place of custody.<\/p>\n
\u201cI called the CID man in charge of the case and informed him about my problem and requested for a transfer. I have, therefore, been transferred from the Legon Police Station to the Kotobabi Police Station,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
He told the court that he was feeling safer at his new abode.<\/p>\n
In response to the revelations, Mr Owusu assured Asiedu that he (Mr Owusu) would confer with Asiedu\u2019s lawyer, who was not in court, and the prosecutor to ensure Asiedu\u2019s safety in custody.<\/p>\n
Accused persons<\/strong><\/p>\n Asiedu appeared in court with the second accused person, Vincent Bosso, who informed the court that he was faring well in custody.<\/p>\n Asiedu has been charged with murder, while Bosso has been charged with abetment of crime.<\/p>\n A-G\u2019s advice<\/p>\n Apart from Asiedu\u2019s lawyer, Mr Augustine Obour, who was not in court, the substantive prosecutor, Supt Francis Baah, was also not in court yesterday.<\/p>\n Chief Inspector Isaac Agbemehia, who held brief for him, informed the court that Supt Baah was out of the jurisdiction.<\/p>\n He further told the court that the prosecution was still waiting for the Attorney-General\u2019s advice on the case.<\/p>\n The case was adjourned to August 19, 2016.<\/p>\n Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n The facts of the case are that the deceased 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.<\/p>\n About 11:40 p.m. on February 8, 2016, the MP arrived home in his private car driven by his driver. The driver had handed over the ignition keys to 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.<\/p>\n About 1 a.m. that same night, Asiedu and Bosso, armed with a catapult, a cutter and a sharp knife, went to the legislator\u2019s house.<\/p>\n 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\u2019s bedroom through a window while Mr Danquah-Adu was sleeping.<\/p>\n While Asiedu was searching the room, the MP woke up and held him. There ensued a struggle, during which Asiedu stabbed the MP in the right chest above the breast, an action which led to the death of the MP.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: Graphic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The man accused of the murder of the former Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North, Mr J.B. Danquah-Adu on Friday informed the Accra District Court that his cell mate in custody had threatened to kill him. Daniel Asiedu, alias Sexy Don Don, made the revelation after the presiding magistrate, Mr Stephen Owusu, had asked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":237199,"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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237193","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=237193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/237199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}