TWIN SISTERS GRANTED BAIL (PAGE 27, MIRROR, DEC 12)

From Akwasi Ampratwum-Mensah, Sunyani

THE Sunyani Magistrate Court A in the Brong Ahafo Region, has granted bail in the sum of GH¢3,000 with two sureties each to be justified to the twin-sisters, Patricia Konadu, alias Ataa Panin and Ataa Kakra, both 25, who were alleged to have severely beaten Mr Yaw Boadan, alias Ata Kuma, the husband of Ataa Panin, resulting in his death at Nsoatre in the Sunyani West District.
The court, presided over by Mr Frank Yaw Gbeddy, has still not taken the plea of the accused persons, who have been charged on two counts of conspiracy to commit murder and murder, contrary to Sections 23 and 46 of Act 29 of 1960 of the criminal code.
In granting the bail, Mr Gbeddy took into consideration an interim autopsy report, which indicated that, the deceased took in some chemical substance and the fact that both accused persons were nursing mothers and the children should not suffer while their mothers were in prison custody.
The court also said, it was waiting for the outcome of an examination of certain organs of the deceased which had been sent to Accra as well as the final autopsy report from the Regional Hospital, Sunyani, before any further action is taken. The accused are to reappear on December 21, 2009.
However, at the time of filing this report, the accused had still not been able to meet the bail term and so were in custody.
The fact of the case as presented by the prosecution were that, the twin sisters and the deceased lived at Nsoatre and that, the first accused person was married to the 42-year-old Boadan who is also a twin, and has a one-and-a-half-year-old boy while Ataa Kakra also has two male twins.
The prosecutor, Chief Inspector Baafi indicated that, on Friday, November 12, 2009, the deceased went to his wife’s house and while there a misunderstanding ensued between them, forcing him to leave for his own house.
The prosecutor indicated that, not quite long after the deceased had left, Ataa Panin rushed to his house with a drink to end the marriage, and that after presenting it, she returned to her house.
He said, the husband who was not happy about the dissolution of the marriage returned to his wife’s house to seek reconciliation and alleged that, the first accused not happy with the presence of her husband, called her twin sister and the two then subjected him to severe beating.
The prosecutor said since the police strongly believed that Boadan died as a result of the assault by the twins, the prosecution would pray the court to remand them into custody to enable the police to conduct thorough investigations into the case.
The Mirror in its November 21, 2009 edition reported that twin sisters have been remanded in prison custody by the Sunyani Magistrate Court for allegedly beating a farmer, the husband of one of the twins to death.