The Madina District Court has discharged Mam Yandey Joof, the lady who was charged for allegedly killing his boyfriend, Bennett Agyekum Adomah, the Chief Executive Officer of Kikibees Resturant and Lounge at East Legon.
This was after the Attorney-General presented their advice to the Court, presided over by Mrs.Susana Nyakotey, urging them to discharge the 31-year-old woman of The Gambian nationality.
The 40-year-old man was alleged to have been murdered in the house of Joof, who is a hotelier and was Adomah’s girlfriend until the incident.
The plea of Mam Yandeh Joof was not taken by the Court since she was arraigned before the Madina District court.
Lawyer for the suspect, Muniru Kassim thanked the investigation team led by Chief Inspector Okyere for the good work.
How it happened
The facts of the case as presented to the court, by Inspector Jameson Awumey said, the deceased (Agyekum Adomah) and the suspect (Mam Yandey Joof) were in an amorous relationship for the past three years.
The deceased had travelled abroad and returned to Ghana in the evening of October,7, 2023 and went to his residence at East Legon from the Airport around 6.00pm.
He continued that the deceased took some rest and later in the night around 8.00pm, left the house to the Kikibees Restaurant and Lounge at East Legon.
At about 12.30am on October 8, 2023, the deceased left the Kikibees restaurant to visit the suspect in her apartment at Ogbojo.
Later in the night at about 1.30am the deceased suddenly became hyper and started behaving strangely and throwing about things in the room amidst shouting that some people were chasing him.
The other tenants in the house were awoken by the noise.
The suspect rang the close friend of the deceased and informed him to come to her apartment to assist her but the friend came and found the deceased lying in a pool of blood in the kitchen throwing his hands about.
Inspector Awumey said the tenants in the house assisted them and took him to DEL Hospital at East Legon but he was pronounced dead shortly on arrival.
The death was reported to Police and the body was conveyed to the Police hospital mortuary for preservation and autopsy.
During inspection at the scene, pieces of broken ceramic glass with blood stains were found in the apartment.
The body was inspected and a cut was found on the left thumb of the deceased.
