An Accra High court has ordered the release of the Achimota Senior High School student who shot and killed his colleague 'girlfriend' January last year.
According to Justice Kofi Dorgu, who presided over the case, the trial of the accused exceeded the six month period as stated in the Juvenile Act. He added that the Juvenile court delivered a verdict without waiting for a social enquiry report.
The accused was sentenced to three years imprisonment at a correctional home by a juvenile court in September 2017 but the High Court, today has ordered for his release on the basis that there was a miscarriage of justice by the Juvenile court.
The 17-year-old convict was found guilty of manslaughter by the Accra Juvenile court for shooting and killing a female colleague.
He was sixteen years [minor] at the time of the incident on January 4, 2017, and so the case was heard in camera.
He is said to have gone for his father’s gun which was under a bed with the intent of shooting in the air but ended up killing his friend, Lily Donkor, who was also a third-year student of the same school.
The facts as narrated in court were that on January 4 last year at about 2 pm the deceased Lily who lived at Cantonments visited the convict at Community eight in Tema.
While there, the prosecution said the convict went to his father’s room and picked up his father’s single barrel gun and shot the victim in the abdomen.
The convict told the police that he intended shooting into the air however the gravity of the gun changed course and hit the deceased.
According to the prosecution, a neighbor heard the gunshot and went to the scene only to see the victim lying in a pool of blood.
The victim was taken to the Port Clinic in Tema. However, due to the condition of the victim, she was transferred to the 37 Military Hospital in Accra where she died on admission.
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