A Sekondi District Court has on Monday, March 14, discharged Adolf Eshun, an 18-year-old student of Bompeh Senior High School involved in the murder of a naval officer.
The court presided over by Her Worship, Rosemary Edith Hayford discharged suspect Adolf Eshun after the Attorney General cleared him of all charges.
Since December 2021, Adolf was charged with conspiracy to murder the case of the killing of a Bolt driver, who doubles as a naval officer. He was charged alongside two other students over the murder of LS Okyere Boateng.
The Attorney General’s office said, although Adolf on 22nd December ordered a Bolt ride for suspects Patrick Baidoo, 19years and Joseph Lord Nii Adjei Oninku, 17 years, who had told him they were stranded, he was not an accomplice to their crime.
The Attorney General, therefore, cleared him but charged the two others with conspiracy to murder.
After the court proceedings, the lawyer for Adolf Eshun, Joseph Evans Abeka, said his client may be willing to testify on the invitation of the Police later in the course of proceedings to help their case.
“Our client has never been involved, so the AG rightly advised that he shouldn’t be prosecuted. He should be discharged, so he has been discharged. If in the future the police need him to come and testify, he will come,”
He is a free man. He has never committed any offence. It is just an unfortunate situation that is why he was on remand,” the lawyer added.
The case was thus adjourned to April 11, 2022.
