An Accra Magistrate Court has ordered for the nineteen people facing trial for the lynching of Major Mahama to be remanded in prison custody.<\/p>\n
The order followed a request by the prosecutor DSP George Amega who asked the court to transfer the suspects from police custody.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”4vMrgJCi0ogitXljYTbOGFYDEnVC7Cdt”]According to the prosecution the suspects were scattered in a number of Police cells in Accra making access to them difficult.<\/p>\n
The Magistrate Ebenezer Kwaku Ansah thus remanded the nineteen people to the Nsawam prisons.<\/p>\n
The Nineteen have been charged with murder and abetment of murder.<\/p>\n
Background <\/strong><\/p>\n The deceased, Major Mahama, an officer of the 5th Infantry Battalion, is said to have been on his daily jogging routine on Monday [May 29, 2017], when some angry youth of the town attacked him, allegedly on suspicion of being an armed robber.<\/p>\n The Police subsequently arrested over fifty suspects who had fled the town to other regions in the country.<\/p>\n The court earlier ordered the police to relocate seventeen-year-old boy, Ebenezer Asamoah, one of the suspects to a borstal home when he is remanded until the police are able to establish that he is eighteen.<\/p>\n