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Police have yet to complete investigations into the communication analysis of the interaction between the deceased and the accused in the Adeiso murder case.
Therefore, the Kaneshie District Court postponed until September 14 the case of three traditional priests who allegedly caused the death of Edward Quartey Papafio, a 64-year-old retired biochemist in Adeiso, in the eastern region.
The traditional priests; Christian Awoe Gamelie, also known as Power One, 40, Famous Adukonu, also known as Scorpion, 37, and Yaw Azamate, 27, were being held on charges of conspiracy to commit a crime, that is, murder.
The three defendants maintained their arguments when they appeared before the court presided over by Ms. Rosemond Dodua Agyiri.
The defendants who were without lawyers were placed in preventive detention pending further investigations.
Meanwhile, the police were looking for Michael Ahiavinye and a certain Buzanga.
The prosecution case led by Detective Inspector Lawrence Anani, was that the complainant was the Reverend Comfort Ruth Quartey-Papafio, who resided in Takoradi in the Western Region.
Gamelie, Adukonu and Azamete operate their businesses in Adu-Kojo and Kwasi-Nyarko, all suburbs of Mame Dede in the Eastern Region.
It said that on January 17 of this year, the author reported the disappearance of her husband, Mr. Quartey Papafio, from his residence in Kasoa on January 15 of this year at around 07.33 a.m.
The prosecution said that upon receiving the complainant, the police gathered intelligence that the deceased was last seen at the Gameli shrine located on the outskirts of Adu Kojo, leading to the arrest of Gameli and Adukonu on April 21. of this year.
According to the prosecution, a search carried out in the Gameli sanctuary discovered two pump-action pistols, a single-barreled pistol, eleven packs of cartridges and seven other pieces of cartridges from his room, while two hidden shovels were also found. in the back of your house.
The Prosecutor’s Office said that during the interrogation, Gameli and Adukonu admitted to having shot the deceased with a bomb-action pistol on January 15 of this year and buried the body in the Sanctuary.
He said that on April 29, the two took police to the Power One spiritual / herbal center, where the police identified the deceased’s grave in a makeshift cemetery behind Gameli’s home.
The prosecution said the crime scene was secured and an exhumation order was obtained from the court for that purpose.
The Prosecutor’s Office said on April 30 of this year, a Pathologist in the company of Senior Officials from the CID Headquarters, Personnel of the Crime Scene Management Team, Forensic Sciences Laboratory, Drone Operation and CID / Headquarters Operational Team together the two defendants, exhumed. the body of the deceased.
He said that when the grave was dug, the decomposed body of Mr. Quartey-Papafio was removed and the police also discovered that the deceased’s grave was, among others, in the defendant’s cemetery, which had been well fenced.
The prosecution said investigations revealed that on December 29, Gameli, Adukonu and Azamete conspired to kill Mr. Papafio, luring him in with the help of one Buzanga, also a traditional priest in Kasoa.
The prosecution said that before the murder of the deceased, the defendant intentionally made a false statement to the deceased and managed to charge him ¢ 10,650 through mobile money under the pretext of conspiring ¢ 400,000 to boost his business.
He said that Papafio was invited to the shrine on January 15 this year for purification and in the process Adukonu shot him with Gameli’s gun.
The prosecution said the defendant drained a quantity of Mr. Papafio’s blood into a plastic bottle and hid it in the shrine while Gameli took possession of the deceased’s mobile phones and then buried the deceased with the help of Azamate and Michael, who they were also fleeing. .
The prosecution said that Gameli and Adukonu allegedly confessed to the police that the blood in the bottle was a mixture of Papafio and another victim who was also buried among other bodies in the cemetery.
He said the gallon of blood and the body were later deposited in the police morgue for examination.
Mr. Anani said that the author later identified the two mobile phones of the deceased.
The prosecution said the pathologist indicated that the cause of Mr. Papafio’s death was hemorrhagic shock, traumatic amputation, and unnatural severe chest pain.
Source: GNA
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