Legal Aid Board to Defend Serial Killer

An Accra High Court, presided over by Mrs Justice Agnes Dordzie on Tuesday ordered the prosecution to arrange with the Legal Aid Board, to provide a counsel for Charles Ebo Quansah, charged with murder.

The court could not continue with proceedings, because Quansah, a 33 year-old mechanic, who made his maiden appearance at the High Court, said that he did not have a counsel to represent him.

Mrs Justice Dordzie, therefore, refused to take the accused person's plea and remanded him in prison custody to reappear on April 18.

Quansah had earlier been committed by an Accra Community Tribunal to stand trial at the High Court.

Mr Anthony Gyambiby, Principal State Attorney, who appeared for the Republic, told the court that though the prosecution was ready, the facts would presented at the next sitting.

Quansah is alleged to have confessed to the killing of eight women in Accra and Kumasi.

On March 15, this year, an Accra Community Tribunal committed Quansah to a High Court to stand trial on the alleged murder of one Akua Serwa, a 24 year-old hairdresser in Kumasi.

In 1996, while serving a prison term for robbery at the Nsawam Medium Security Prisons, Quansah met a mate, William Bittar, a Lebanese, who helped him to secure a job in Kumasi.

The accused befriended Serwah in 1996, while in Kumasi, where he allegedly strangled her after a drinking spree at a drinking bar, near the Kumasi Sports Stadium.

A Police statement issued on May 15, last year, alleged that Quansah killed women at Kumasi and Dansoman, Matehako and Adenta all in Accra.