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The defence lawyers for two Nigerians standing trial for the murder of the four missing ‘Takoradi girls’ yesterday failed to appear before the Sekondi High Court without prior notice.
At the last adjournment, the court ordered the prosecution to file its written address by February 17, 2021, while the defence counsels for Samuel Udoetuk-Wills and John Oji were to file their written addresses by February 24, 2021, for oral submissions to be heard yesterday.
However, both counsels failed to file their written addresses as directed by the court, and did not show up in court at all yesterday, with no explanation.
The court, presided over by Justice Richard Adjei-Frimpong, a Justice of the court of Appeal, with additional responsibility as a High Court judge, said the verdict of the jury, fixed for tomorrow, would be delivered as scheduled.
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BY: Dotsey Koblah Aklorbortu & Augustina Dzodzegbe
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One of the two Nigerian nationals standing trial at the Sekondi High Court for the murder of four missing girls in Takoradi, Monday denied ever kidnapping and murdering two of the girls he described as his very good friends.
During cross-examination by his counsel, Mr George Essiful-Ansah, the accused told the court “I have never kidnapped before and I am not a kidnaper, when I heard of the kidnapping I was shocked myself,” the suspect, Samuel Udoetuk-Wills, told the court.
I know only two
Out of the four missing girls, he said, he knew only two – Priscilla Blessing Bentum and Priscilla Mantebea Koranchie, “but I don’t know Ruthlove Quayson and Ruth Abaka”.