The High Court in Accra has sentenced, Richard Appiah, the draughtsman standing trial for killing two minors and keeping the dismembered body parts of one of them in a refrigerator at Abesim, to life imprisonment after been found guilty for murder.
This was after the seven-member jury panel returned an unanimous guilty verdict on each of the two counts of murder.
Appiah had pleaded the defence of insanity for killing two minors, namely Louis Agyemang, 12, and Stephen Sarpong, 15.
By pleading guilty but insane, he essentially was telling the Court that, he committed that act at the time he was not mentally stable.
But, the Jury rejected his plea and returned a unanimous guilty verdict of murder effectively saying – Prosecution led by Nana Ama Adinkra, a Senior State Attorney, had discharged the burden of proof beyond reasonable doubt.
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