An Accra District Court has committed a man believed be in his late 30’s to stand trial over a charge of manslaughter at the High Court.
Earlier, the accused, Meyers was held for allegedly murdering his wife following a misunderstanding but the bill of Indictment from the Attorney General’s Office on November 2, this year, reduced the murder charge to manslaughter.
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Meyers is said to have assaulted his wife Elizabeth Quartey, the victim during a misunderstanding in January this year at Korle-Gonno but three days after the incident, Meyers at dawn rushed to his wife’s family home to inform them that his wife was unconscious.
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Meyers allegedly rushed his wife to the Korle-Bu Teaching hospital where she passed away whiles on admission.
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Joyce Debrah, a Senior Attorney from the Attorney General’s Department at the District Court said a post-mortem report showed that Meyer’s wife died of severe head injuries.
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Mrs Debrah said the state intends calling four witnesses to make their case.
Meyers during the committal proceedings described his wife’s death as an “â€accident.â€â€
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â€I was with my wife when I realized at dawn that she was unconscious so I visited her family house and informed them. I rushed my wife to the Korle- Bu Teaching Hospital and my wife was examined,â€â€ Meyers told the court.
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“Initially, my wife was responding to treatment but when the machine that the nurse was using on her stopped, the nurse informed me that she had passed on.
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I drove my wife to the cold room and later the nurse gave me a form to send to the Police Station at Korle-Bu,â€â€ Meyers said.
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According to Meyers, a few minutes after he reached the Police Station a relative of his wife came there with my daughter.
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He said the said relation asked my daughter to say to me that I have killed my wife.
Meyers defense counsel said they also intend calling two witnesses during the trial.
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