By: Beatrice Oppon
The second accused person in the Joseph Boakye Danquah Adu murder trial Vincent Bossu has been acquitted and discharged by the Accra High Court.
JB Danquah Adu was the MP for Abuakwa North until he was killed on February 9, 2016 at his residence at Shiashie in Accra.
This was after the presiding Judge, Justice Lydia Osei Marfo ruled that the prosecution failed to make any case against him. Vincent Bossu popularly known as Junior Agogo had insisted on his innocence from the beginning of the trial nearly eight years ago.
He was facing a charge of conspiracy to commit murder with Daniel Aseidu.
Justice Osei Marfo’s ruling was afterv a plea by the defence lawyer Yaw Dankwah, that ASP Augustus Nkrumah a investigator in the case who is also a prosecution witness failed to demonstrate to the court that Vincent Bossu allegedly conspired with the main accused to commit robbery.
The lawyer while praying the Court to aquit and discharge his client noted that although Bossu has been in prison custody for eight years the Prosecution has not been able to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Bossu indeed committed the crime.
Meanwhile the Court has directed Daniel Asiedu the main accused to open his defence at the next hearing on April 22, 2024.
The Court noted that, the Prosecution succeeded in providing enough evidence against him. Mother of Vincent Bossu, moved to emotions after, the acquittal of her son, said the allegations against him caused the collapse of her marriage and other implications.
She was however happy that her son’s Defence Counsel Yaw Dankwah was grateful to his team of lawyers for the support to achieve this feat.
