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The trial of the man accused of killing Mr JB Danquah-Adu, the former Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North Constituency, is finally set to take off on April 26 this year, five years after the murder of the legislator. ....
+ The judge hearing the murder case of the late Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North, Mr J.B. Danquah-Adu, has expressed worry about the unwillingness of counsels from the Legal Aid Department to represent the accused person, Daniel Asiedu. A High Court Judge, Justice Lydia Osei Marfo, said yesterday that despite writing to the Legal Aid Department asking for counsel for the accused, the court had not received any response; hence, a lawyer had not been assigned to represent the accused person, a situation which is stalling the progress of the case. Previous lawyer In November last year, the Lawyer for the accused person, Mr Augustine Obour, who had been defending him for close to five years on pro-bono basis, decided to withdraw his services after a video which went viral showed Asiedu confessing to killing Mr Danquah-Adu. ....
+ A private legal practitioner has volunteered to represent Daniel Asiedu, the man accused of murdering Mr J B Danquah-Adu, the then member of parliament (MP) for Abuakwah North, paving the way for a jury to be empaneled. It comes after several weeks of back and forth as counsels from the legal Aid Department were unwilling to represent Asiedu. It was upon the intervention of the High Court judge hearing the case, Justice Lydia Osei Marfo, who had earlier expressed worry of unwillingness of counsels from the Legal Aid Department to represent the accused person. The new counsel, Mr Yaw Dankwa, was urged by the presiding judge to take up the defence of the accused person. ....
The Trial Judge of the alleged killers of J. B. Danquah Adu, the late Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North, on Friday appealed to lawyers at the Legal Aid Scheme to take up the mantle of defending the suspects. ....