Suspect in Ruth Eshun’s murder case granted GHS100k bail

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One of the suspects accused of murdering a nurse, Ruth Ama Eshun, in the Bosomtwe District town of Ayuom in the Ashanti Region has been granted bail.

Dominic Fosu is one of two suspects facing the Asokwa District Court following the unfortunate incident that occurred in February this year.

He was arrested after his Samsung mobile phone, which had ran out of battery power, got missing at the crime scene.

He had remained in police custody since February 5, after the device became a subject of police investigations and had subsequently been remanded by the lower court.

A bail application was subsequently filed by his lawyer Bismarck Nsia-Aboagye Esq on February 17, at a High Court in Kumasi, where he was granted a GHS100,000 with two sureties to be justified.

He was also ordered by the court to avail himself to the police every Monday, as investigations continues.

Advancing his argument, Lawyer Nsiah-Aboagye told a Kumasi High Court 4, that his client remains innocent of the charges and made reference to Article 19 of the 1992 constitution which spells out the innocence of an accused person unless proven guilty by a court.

He also made references to Section 96 of Act 30 of the Criminal Procedure Code and decided cases and prevailed on the judge to exercise his discretion to grant the accused person bail.

The accused, he argued, is “a victim of circumstance and has nothing to do with the gruesome murder of Ruth Ama Eshun and it was therefore not surprising that upon his arrest the police found nothing incriminating connecting him to the crime”.

“The accused is completely innocent of the charges preferred against him but has since been in police custody for more than two weeks”, the court heard.

Lawyer Nsiah-Aboagye further prayed, the accused when granted bail will make himself available for further investigations and committal proceedings if the state is desirous to prosecute him.

But that was vehemently opposed by Akosua Asantewaa Sarpong, an Assistant State Attorney, who relied on her affidavit, told the court that the police have not completed their investigations.

She further stated that bail is at the discretion of the presiding Judge and if the court is minded to grant same then the conditions should be such that the accused will be available for trial to commence because of the severity of the charges.

The presiding Judge, Justice C.A Wilson, subsequently granted the bail application based on the argument of counsel for the accused person and oral submission as well as the State’s opposition.

The substantive case continues at the Asokwa District Court on April 30, 2020.

The deceased Eshun was found lifeless on February 4, 2020 after she failed to return home from work.

The victim, until her death was a community health nurse at the Sewua Health Center in the Bosomtwe District.

There have been calls by Ghanaians to get justice for the deceased as they demand the police to arrest the culprits to face the full rigours of the law.

By Jonathan Ofori, Daily Mail GH