Dutch accepts to undergo AIDS test.

Accra, Sept. 25, GNA - A 53-year-old Dutch, who is said to have infected a hairdresser with the AIDS virus on Thursday said he would undergo a voluntary AIDS test to prove or disprove claims by his girlfriend.

At an Accra Regional Tribunal on Wednesday, Rudy Veindehoven, a driver told the tribunal that he would undertake the test at his own expense. "The court would like you to go for HIV/AIDS test," the judge stated. "Yes my Lord I will like that, I am prepared to pay for the cost," Veindehoven replied.

When the court asked where the test should be conducted, Police Inspector Emmanuel T. Boison, who is in charge of the case suggested the Police Hospital.

The tribunal presided over by Mr Justice P.K. Aggrey ordered that the test should be conducted at the Police Hospital and the results of the test should be presented to the court on Monday September 29.

Veindehoven is standing trial for intentionally causing unlawful harm to his girlfriend by infecting her with HIV/AIDS virus.

The court did not take his plea and it remanded him for the second time into Police custody.

At the last sitting, Prosecution prayed the court to allow Veindehoven to undergo an HIV/AIDS test to affirm his status as the Police was finding it difficult to compel him to do so.

"We need some time to investigate further," the Prosecution said. The tribunal, therefore, remanded Veindehoven until Wednesday (today) but stated that it would take a second look on the legality of compelling him to undertake the test today.

The facts as presented by the Prosecution were that the complainant resided at Sogakope in the Volta Region. Three years ago, Veindehoven met the complainant in Togo, proposed love to her and promised to marry her.

Prosecution said Viendehoven told the complainant to acquire a passport that would enable him to take her to Holland and she obliged. Occasionally, accused visited complainant in Ghana and lodged in a hotel with her.

According to the Prosecution, accused had earlier on befriended the complainant's friend, who died in 1993 of AIDS.

Veindehoven claimed he tested HIV positive after the death of her girlfriend but was healed in 1995, with the hand of the Almighty God and tested negative in September last year.

The Prosecution said on September 8, this year, while accused was in a hotel room with the complainant he asked her whether she knew that he has the HIV virus.

The complainant was astonished with the revelation and went for an HIV/AIDS test at the Police Hospital, where she tested positive. The complainant reported the matter to the Police and when accused was arrested, he had admitted having the virus but said he was cured through the work of God.