[ 2016-09-23 ]

I killed girl, 7 and had sex with body -- Man, 22, confesses

A 22-year-old man yesterday confessed to the Accra
Central District Magistrate Court to killing a
seven-year-old girl at Ashaiman, near Tema, after
which he had sex with the corpse.











Lucas Agboyie, alias “Sympathy”, told the
court that he strangled his victim after she had
refused his advances and even begged him not to
have sex with her.

“I then took her to my room and slept with the
body repeatedly,’’ Lucas said, to the shock of
the audience in the packed courtroom.

Confession

Agboyie, who wore a blue T-shirt over a pair of
blue jeans and was clean shaven and energetic
looking, threw his arms wildly about as he
described events that led to the little girl’s
death.

According to him, on the day of the incident, he
had smoked marijuana, right after which he saw the
girl passing by his house.

“It was a Sunday morning and after taking
‘ganja’, I saw the girl passing. I called her
and sent her to go and bring me my towel that had
been hung behind my house. On her return, I told
her that I wanted to sleep with her but she
refused.

“I held her hand and she began struggling with
me. She begged and told me to let her go and
started screaming. So I strangled her.

“I then took her to my room and slept with the
body. Afterwards, I took the GH¢20 she had in her
possession and used it to buy ‘ganja’,” he
said.

Shock, disbelief and tears

The victim’s mother, who was in court, could not
hold back her tears as Agboyie made the
confession.

She had to be consoled by her family members who
had accompanied her to the court.

As the confession was unfolding, others could be
seen shaking their heads and shedding tears.

Charge and delay from A-G

Agboyie has been charged with murder and is
currently going through committal proceedings at
the magistrate court, a prelude to the actual
trial at the High Court.

Meanwhile, the court, presided over by Mr Worlanyo
Kotoku, has chastised the Attorney-General’s
(A-G’s) Department for the undue delay in giving
advice on the docket of the case.

According to him, the incident took place on April
19, 2015; Agboyie was arraigned on April 23, 2015,
while the docket had been sent to the A-G’s
Department for advice in June 2015.

“I don’t know why the case is still delaying.
The accused person’s story has been consistent
since the first day he was brought to court. These
are committal proceedings and not the actual
trial,” he said.

The prosecutor in the case was absent and so the
magistrate tasked the investigator to follow up at
the A-G’s Department to help expedite the
release of the docket for the continuation of the
committal proceedings.

A lawyer in the courtroom who was touched by the
victim’s mother’s wailings volunteered to
follow up to the A-G’s Department.

The case has been adjourned to October 4, 2016.

Facts

The facts of the case, as presented by the
prosecution, were that on April 19, 2015, the
seven-year-old girl was sent by her mother with a
GH¢20 note to buy bread.

After waiting for a long time without their
daughter returning home, her parents became
alarmed and sought the help of neighbours to
search for her.

“Later, an informant alerted the search party
that he had seen Agboyie pulling the girl into his
metal container. When the search party went to the
metal container, Agboyie was nowhere to be found.

“To their utmost surprise, they found the naked
body of the girl lying supine on an old
students’ mattress, with blood oozing from her
mouth and nostrils,’’ the prosecutor said.

He added that Agboyie was later apprehended and
“he confessed to killing the girl, after which
he had sex with her’’.

Alleged accomplice

According to the prosecution, the search party
believed that the girl had been killed for ritual
purposes and demanded that Agboyie mention the
name of the one who had hired him to commit the
crime.

“He insisted that he had killed the girl on his
own volition. Dissatisfied, the residents started
beating him and threatened to hand him over to an
angry mob to lynch him,’’ the prosecutor
said.

He said Agboyie thereafter mentioned a man named
Baba Ali as the one who had sent him to commit the
act, after which he was handed over to the
police.

“When the police confronted him on the identity
of his accomplice, Agboyie retracted his earlier
statement and said he had acted alone.

‘’He said he had mentioned the name because of
the beatings he received from the crowd and fear
for his life,’’ the prosecutor said.

Source - graphic.com.gh

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