By Yvonne Asare Offei
The Criminal Division of the Accra High Court has empaneled a seven-member jury for the commencement of the case involving one Lucas Agboyie, a man accused of murdering a seven-year-old girl at Ashaiman in 2015.
The girl is said to have passed by a metal container where the accused person resided and he abducted and killed her.
It is the case of the prosecution that on April 19, 2015, the seven-year-old girl was sent by her mother with GH₵ 20 to buy bread, but never returned home.
The naked body of the girl was found lying supine on an old student’s mattress, with blood oozing from her mouth and nostrils in the accused person’s metal container.
Lucas Agboyie has pleaded not guilty to the charge of Murder and has been remanded in prison custody.
According to our Court Correspondent Yvonne Asare Offei, the empaneling of the jurors was without any rejection, and have been sworn in for the trial to commence.
The Court presided over by Justice El-Freda Dankyi, has adjourned the case to the 12th of January 2021 for parties to address the jury.
Lucas Agboyie, reportedly confessed to the Ashiaman District Court in September 2016, to killing the seven-year-old girl, after which he had sex with her corpse.
On November 25, 2018, Agboyie’s Counsel from the Legal Aid Commission, Eric Opoku, then filed an application seeking an order for a Psychiatric Examination to be conducted on his client.
Counsel submitted that he was unable to have meaningful interactions with his client to be able to mount any sort of Defense for him.
That application was granted by the Court on the 25th of February 2019.
