JB murder: Psychiatric hospital requests for Asiedu’s family

It has emerged from the Criminal Division of the Accra High Court that, Daniel Asiedu the self-confessed killer of the late Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North refused an order for him to be sent for a mental examination at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital.

But three weeks after his initial refusal, the accused agreed to the request for assessment.

The hospital has, however, requested to see the mother and sister of the accused person as well as the CID in the matter before a report could be submitted on him.

But Asiedu, alias Sexy Don Don has told the court presided over by Justice Geroge Buadi that he does not know the mother.

Background

The facts, as presented by the prosecution, are that on February 8, 2016, Asiedu and Bosso decided to embark on a robbery operation at Shiashie, a suburb of East Legon, where the MP resided.

Asiedu selected the MP’s house, but Bosso disagreed and decided to abandon the robbery operation.

About 11:40 p.m., the MP arrived home and went to bed in a room located on the first floor of his house.

About 1 a.m. that same night, Asiedu, armed with a catapult, a cutter and a sharp knife, went to the legislator’s house. He entered the house by scaling the wall on the blind side of a security man who was fast asleep.

On entering the house, Asiedu climbed onto a porch on the top floor with a ladder and entered the MP’s bedroom through a window.



While Asiedu was searching the room, the MP woke up and held him. There ensued a struggle, during which Asiedu stabbed the MP in the right chest above the breast. Asiedu also sustained various injuries in his palm and chest.

The legislator fell by his bed, bleeding profusely, after which Asiedu stabbed him several times on the right chest and neck.

On realising that the MP was dying, Asiedu left the room and took with him three iPhones.

Meanwhile, the struggle between the MP and Asiedu drew the attention of the security man in the house who alerted others in the neighbourhood.

Asiedu, however, managed to descend; he jumped over the electric fencing on the walls of the house into an adjoining house and escaped.

Asiedu then took the phones to a phone repairer to decode them, but the repairer saw bloodstains and the pictures of the MP on the phones and alerted the police.

Source: Starrfm.com.gh