Economist Charged With Murder

Accra (Greater Accra) 19 May, '98

Johnson Yeboah, a senior economist attached to the World Bank Desk of the Ministry of Finance, was today committed to stand trial at a High Court for allegedly murdering his wife, Mrs. Margaret Yeboah. A community tribunal chaired by Mr Kwadwo Owusu which committed Yeboah said although evidence against the accused "is circumstancial, a prima facie case has been established for him to answer the charge". The case for the prosecution was that until May, 16 1996, Yeboah was living with his wife at Redco flats near Madina in Accra. There was a marriage dispute between the couple which family members of both sides settled. The prosecution said on May 16, three days after the settlement, the deceased was heard screaming in a room with the husband. Later, the deceased, a matron at the Presbyterian Boys Seconday School (PRESEC) Legon, was alleged to have fallen through a window from the fourth floor of the flats to the ground floor as a result of which she fell in to a coma. A watchman at the ground floor who heard the sound of a heavy object from the top of the building went to the scene only to find the body of Mrs Yeboah. The watchman rushed to inform her husband who rushed to the ground floor to find the wife unconscious and therefore took her to the 37 Military hospital where she died. gri

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