Free Press

"Anim Densu granted bail... State Attorney clashes with judge", says the Free Press in a front page headline. The paper reports that Edward Anim Densu, former East Akim District Chief Executive, who is accused of shooting to death two persons at Adasewase, a village near Anyinam in the Eastern Region, has been granted a 50 million-cedi bail with two sureties by the Koforidua High Court. The Free Press the granting of bail resulted in a serious dispute between the judge, Mr Justice Twum and the State Attorney.

According to the paper the dispute arose around two issues. First, the State Attorney expressed misgivings about the way the judge began to read his ruling at a time when she (State Attorney) had been called to her chambers from the court room by a policeman. Before she could enter the court room from her chambers, the judge had started reading the judgement. The second reason for the State Attorney's objection was that there had been no prior application for the suspect's trial bail after the resumption of the legal year and that ordinarily, counsel for the accused person should have applied at an earlier date before the bail could be granted or otherwise.