Court grants bail to Legon students

Accra, May 6, GNA - An Accra Circuit Court on Friday granted bail to nine students of the University of Ghana facing trail on four counts of conspiracy to commit crime, assault by imprisonment, indecent assault and causing unlawful harm.

Francis Wiredu Attah, Tornu Mark Dickson, Morris Awuregya, Nana Osei Asiamah, Gideon Agyei Ayiridaga, Gabriel Aboyadana Amobila, Godfred Afeatse, Evans Addai Boateng and Obed Banini, all of the Mensah Sarbah Hall Annex B pleaded not guilty to all the charges and are to re-appear on May 30.

They were granted bail to the tune of GH¢ 9,000 each with one surety= each. The bail was granted due to the semester examination of the University which ends on May 28.

Prosecutor, Deputy Superintendent of Police Kofi Blagodzi told the court presided over by Mrs Georgina Mensah-Datsah that the complainant Amina Haruna, 25, a petty trader at Madina was arrested on March 30 by some students of the Hall for allegedly stealing a laptop computer and a mobile phone belonging to one of the students. He said after retrieving the stolen items from the complaint, she was locked up in a room for sometime, was brought out and subjected to severe beating and in the process striped naked. The prosecutor said some of the accused persons standing trail forcibly inserted their fingers into her vagina causing her to bleed profusely before she was rescued by the campus security and handed over to the police.

"She was taken to the Police Hospital for treatment where she was admitted for four days," he said.

Photographs and video recordings made by some students in the process of the act were later displayed on the internet. DSP Blagodzi said the accused persons were identified in some of the photographs and video recordings and a further identification parade held at the Criminal Investigation Department for the compliant.