Jobless Married Man Murders Cousin With Screwdriver Inside Market Over This Ridiculous Accusation
One Mr Godwin Kotey, a married man without a job, admitted to manslaughter in the death of his cousin who was identified by the name Fredrick Nil Oko. Sackey and as a direct consequence of this, he was condemned to a five-year prison sentence after his appearance in
court.
The case was originally prosecuted as murder, but Kotey’ s plea agreement with the state resulted in a reduced charge and sentence, according to credible findings by newsmen.
“My Lady respectfully, we have entered into plea negotiations with the Attorney General and we would respectfully like to change the plea of the accused person. from not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter”, the newsmen quote Edwin Hoffman Counsel holding brief of Kwame Appiah who told the court that the above-mentioned offense contravene section 239(2) of Act 30.
However, the terrible event resulted from a dispute between the convict, Kotey and his cousin regarding Kotey’s girlfriend, who the deceased, Sackey allowed to stay with him. Kotey got into a heated dispute with his cousin that turned violent, claiming that Sackey and his girlfriend were having a secret affair.
Court documents state that on 23rd November 2023, Kotey confronted Sackey at Salaga Market with a screwdriver, setting off a heated reactions that escalated the conflict. Following the altercation, Kotey used the screwdriver to stab Sackey in the chest before running away. Kotey was temporarily able to escape despite attempts by onlookers to capture him, but he was eventually hunted down and apprehended by the police.
Additionally, a pathologist from Korle- Bu Teaching Hospital testified during the trial that Sackey passed away as a result of a deep stab wound to the chest, precisely from a punctured right ventricle.
When Kotey, via his attorney Edwin Hoffman, invoked the Plea Bargaining Act in an attempt to negotiate a plea agreement with the Attorney General, the case took a different path. Following multiple discussions, Kotey was left with no choice but to plead guilty to manslaughter after previously denying the charges multiple times.
In his ruling, Senior State Attorney Vivian Osei Tutu attested to the fact that Kotey’ s manslaughter conviction resulted from the Attorney General’ s approval of the
plea deal. The court, which was chaired by Justice Lydia Osei Marfo, took into account the facts of the case as well as the five-year sentence that has been agreed upon and found to be appropriate as punishment for the convict. After that, Kotey received a five-year prison sentence with hard labor. The sad event serves as a reminder of what happens when arguments get out of hand and people start using violence rather than rational thinking. Kotey’ s admission of guilt and eventual imprisonment serve as a warning about the potential legal consequences of taking the laws into your own hands.
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