The Dispatch

Judges tortured, then murdered ? Doctor?s report

The Dispatch, in its banner headline story quotes a pathologist?s report indicating that the three High court Judges and a retired Major of the Ghana Armed Force, who were murdered 17 years ago today, were tortured before they were killed.

The paper says Judges, Mr Justice F.P. Sarkodee, Mr Justice K.A. Adjepong and Mrs. Justice Cecilia Koranteng-Addow, all of whom had been prominent in overturning the decision of the erstwhile Armed Forces Revolutionary Council?s (AFRC) Special Court, and Major Sam Acquah, Director of Personnel at the Ghana Industrial Holding Corporation (GIHOC), were seized from their homes under the cover of darkness and taken to a firing range on the Accra Plains where they were shot dead and their bodies partly burnt.

The Dispatch says a special investigation board chaired by Mr Justice Azu Crabbe, investigated and found that Mr Amartey Kwei, a former member of the defunct Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC), and four others were responsible for the killings. They were subsequently tried and sentenced to death by firing squad.