Dr Lawrence Edusei, a pathologist at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, has told an Accra Central District Court that he cannot find the report of an autopsy he performed on the slain New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North in the Eastern Region, JB Danquah-Adu.
According to him, his home was burgled in September last year and a sizable number of autopsy reports were stolen.
He did not say who burgled and ransacked his home but said he had reported the matter to the Korle-Bu Police.
The pathologist said he could, however, not say with certainty whether the late JB Danquah’s post-mortem report was among those stolen.
Dr Lawrence Edusei, who is currently on retirement, said due to the burglary, he had lost about one thousand reports.
“Writing the report would demand additional work to be done. I need to get access to the pictures, take my time and recollect what I saw and put same into writing,” he said.
He has over the past months been playing hide-and-seek with the court, which had ordered him to release the report to the police or come and explain reasons behind the delay in its release.
Although two separate summonses were served on him to appear before the court, he failed to comply.
The magistrate, Arit Nsemoh, whose patience had been running out, subsequently ordered the court’s registry to serve a witness subpoena on the pathologist to appear before the court on January 4, 2018.
Dr. Edusei told the court that he had performed thousands of post-mortems and could not say with certainty when he did that of the late MP’s.
Asked by the magistrate why he did not furnish the court with the report when he concluded the post-mortem, he said the Judicial Service had not paid him for services rendered for the past 15 years and had thus decided to hoard the reports until he was paid.
The magistrate, however, restrained him from saying anything further on the debt owed him and urged him to limit his responses to the JB Danquah case.
Dr Edusei told the court that he could not single out the JB case, stating, “In medicine, you cannot give specific answers to specific questions,” a claim the magistrate did not take lightly.
Magistrate Nsemoh then inquired from the pathologist what assistance he would need before releasing the report.
He (pathologist) said writing the report would need additional work to be done.
The presiding magistrate therefore adjourned the matter to January 18, 2018 for the pathologist to release the report to the court’s registrar or appear in court to explain why the report was not ready.
Two suspects, Daniel Asiedu, 19, aka Sexy Don Don – phone dealer and Vincent Bosso aka Junior Agogo, phone repairer – are before the court for allegedly murdering JB Danquah-Adu.
The case is still at committal stage awaiting the Attorney General’s (AG’s) advice and the autopsy report, which will play a huge role in determining the fate of the two suspects.
Source: Daily Guide
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Massa; don't let us kid ourselves the JB Danquah murder was organised by some powerful people ; how on earth can such important document in a murder case go missing ; this should tell you somthing habve gone amiss besides JB Danquah was a relative of Nana Addo Daquah so why has Nana Adddo and these Akyem mafia kept so quiet on this matter ? was it a ritual murder ;remember DR JB Danquah ; Nana Addos uncle was involved in such ritual murder many ears aga besides why was the wife not questioned as she was in the house when this murder happebed ; was sta Dogbe still chopping her !!!!!
Ghana is the most use.le$$ country on the planet.you people are just ffffoooolish breathing mammals God has created.
Is this man telling us the hospital does not have a computer or systems to store pathology reports? If a pathology report for a prominent politician can go missing, what hope does an ordinary citizen have? We should learn something from this case by putting systems and processes in place to stop these kind of cases from occurring again. Additionally, this pathologist must be jailed to deter others.
It's interesting to notice that someone has a memory of Cocaine turning into Konkonte under NPP but can lost the same memory when Cocaine turn into soda powder under NDC....
So those that means that he is not having soft copies of his Documents. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Ghana is been tag as one of the most corrupt and dangerous countries in Africa..
It appears the killing of JB Dankwa is nothing but political. Even though the killing was staged to appear like robbery revealing events afterwards suggest that it id highly political. It was only by God's intervention that the killer was found. All was done to arrange and hide the culprit by the powerful political figures behind it but God was so good the the killer was identified. Now the same powerful behind the missing of autopsy.
No surprise at all.See what is happening to Major Mahama's killers,free them on daily basis even with video evidence.NPP at it again,if cocaine caught under them manage to turn into kokonte then anything is possible with this curses Government
Does he work for Korle Bu or for his private facility?Doe he carry the reports home,instead of the teaching hospital? Doesn't he keep records at the teaching hospotal? I see the umbrella behind this kweku ananse story...he must be punished.
Was the pathologist working from his private hospital? No... Was he being paid as staff of Korle Bu? Yes... What payment does he want from Judicial service for doing a job he is being paid by government to do? I cant think far....? The guy must be arrested.....