THE Magistrate’s Court in Tema trying the case involving six people who were alleged to have tortured and set ablaze a 72-year-old woman, Ama Ahemmah, leading to her death has adjourned the case to December 6.
The decision of the court is to await advice on the docket which has been forwarded to the Attorney-General’s Department to enable committal proceedings to begin.
Two of the suspects, Samuel Ghunney, a 50-year-old photographer, and Emelia Opoku, a 37-year-old teacher, were alleged to have drenched Ama with Kerosene laced with petrol before setting her ablaze with the help of Samuel Fletcher Sagoe, 55, an evangelist, Nancy Nana Ama Akrofie, 46, Hannah Sagoe and Mary Sagoe, 52, all unemployed, who have been released on a police enquiry bail.
The magistrate, Mrs Johana Yankson, was, however, absent from court because of ill-health.
The prosecutor in the case, Chief Inspector Emmanuel Addai, told the Daily Graphic that the suspects would be made to appear before the Tema High Court on a charge of murder immediately investigations into the case were completed.
The suspects were alleged to have tortured and extracted confessions of being a witch from the Ama Ahemmah, when she strayed into their house at Community One Site 7.
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