Killed! Lawyer R. S. Blay
Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com
By
William Yaw Owusu
Friday, November 22, 2013
It has emerged that the prominent Tema-based lawyer,
Robert Samuel Blay may have been killed in 2011 because of GH¢3,000, DAILY
GUIDE has learnt.
This amount was supposed to be legal fee RS Blay allegedly
charged Frank Amegadzi aka Olenke aka Papa in order to defend him in his
previous robbery case that landed him in prison custody until he was released
under the Justice for all Programme.
Nkrabeah and Associates, lawyers defending Olenke
who is standing trial in a different Rambo-styled robbery of a popular Forex
Bureau in Tema, revealed the amount in a rejoinder to DAILY GUIDE’S story
captioned “Lawyer Killer ‘Grabbed’” which was published on Tuesday, November
19.
“In short Frank Amegadzi has not been
grabbed for killing any lawyer. Our client who has a fairly prosperous
businesswoman for a wife will definitely not kill his family friend of a
lawyer, if at all, not for a paltry sum of GH¢3,000
- assuming this imaginative motive were to be true,” Nkrabeah Effah Dartey who
is lead counsel for the accused wrote to DAILY GUIDE in a rejoinder.
Rejoinder
We are a firm of lawyers, based
in Accra. Our attention has been drawn to the front page publication in today's
issue of the "Daily Guide" with the banner headline "Lawyer
Killer Grabbed" and the picture of our client Frank Amegadzi posted
therein.
We are
completely shocked by the contents of the story because your reporter based his
story on evidence given in camera in the Courtroom in a robbery case in which
our client is 5th Accused.
The High Court
presided over by Mr. Justice Logoh is hearing proceedings involving PW3 named
by your reporter as Obiri Yeboah in camera, and only defence Counsel Court
officials and the accused are in the Courtroom.
We cannot
understand how your reporter's hands fell on the evidence, and we are more
concerned because we are not allowed by law to disclose the cross examination
we made and its impact on the concoctions of the witness.
Suffice it to say that our client
Frank Amegadzi is in custody on an alleged robbery case, but even
notwithstanding the inventions of Yeboah the Police have not thought it
necessary to even take a Statement - be it cautioned investigative or ordinary
from Frank Amegadzi all this while.
In short Frank
Amegadzi has NOT been grabbed for killing any lawyer. Our client who has a
fairly prosperous businesswoman for a wife will definitely not kill his family
friend of a lawyer, if at all, not for a paltry sum of 3,000 Gh Cedis -
assuming this imaginative motive were to be true.
We are not
lawyers nor spokesmen for the Ghana Police Service, but we have no doubt in our
minds that if and when they eventually capture the killers of our late learned
friend Blay, they will certainly put the culprits before Court for full trial.
For now we as
Counsel for Frank Amegadzi invite the reading public to disregarding the in
camera testimony of that personage responding to the name Yeboah - as per your
publication – who is PW3 in the ongoing robbery trial.
Suspect! Frank Amegadzi aka Olenke aka Papa
Breakthrough
Last Tuesday, DAILY GUIDE published that there
appeared to be a breakthrough with regard to solving the mystery of the
gruesome murder of a prominent Tema-based lawyer, Robert Samuel Blay in 2011.
The murder had remained an unsolved mystery since 2011
because the police were unable to trace the killers.
However, two weeks ago, a prosecution witness in a
different robbery case blew the cover of suspects whom he alleged conspired to
murder R.S. Blay. He named the suspect and his girlfriend Dora Sarpongmaa 7th
accused as those behind the mystery death of the young and popular Tema lawyer.
WITNESS “My
Lord, the 5th accused persons said after he gave money to
lawyer Blay to defend him and he did not come, and because of
that he was remanded into Nsawam prison, whereas the 5th
accused person's girlfriend is the 7th accused, and at the same time lawyer Blay has expressed interest in Dora the 7th accused person, therefore he is sending Dora the 7th accused person to him to say that she wants to eat fried rice and chicken, so that they will go to Papa Ye and buy it, and that after they have gone to Papaye and they have bought the food and coming back or returning, then the 7th accused person should signal him to know that they have gone and they are coming back or returning. .….. My Lord, then the next day I met the 5th accused and asked him that why, and that somebody that you say you are coming to collect your money from, why did you stab him? “
lawyer Blay to defend him and he did not come, and because of
that he was remanded into Nsawam prison, whereas the 5th
accused person's girlfriend is the 7th accused, and at the same time lawyer Blay has expressed interest in Dora the 7th accused person, therefore he is sending Dora the 7th accused person to him to say that she wants to eat fried rice and chicken, so that they will go to Papa Ye and buy it, and that after they have gone to Papaye and they have bought the food and coming back or returning, then the 7th accused person should signal him to know that they have gone and they are coming back or returning. .….. My Lord, then the next day I met the 5th accused and asked him that why, and that somebody that you say you are coming to collect your money from, why did you stab him? “
Suspect! Dora Sarpongmaa
It would be recalled that the Tema Metropolis was
thrown into shock when on October 5, 2011, Lawyer R.S. Blay was reported dead
at the Tema General Hospital after he was allegedly stabbed in the throat with
a broken beer bottle.
The prosecution
witness was giving evidence in the trial of the suspects in the robbery of a
popular Forex Bureau in Tema.
No comments:
Post a Comment