Major Maxwell Mahama

The the final hearing on Major Maxwell Mahama’s trial has been rescheduled to January 29, 2024, due to unexpected setbacks. The seven-member jury, presiding over the case at the Accra High Court, faced delays as one juror was indisposed during the defense lawyer's final address on November 27, 2023. Originally scheduled for November 28, 2023, for the jury to give their final judgment on the 14 persons standing trial for the murder of Major Mahama, the proceedings faced complications. The unexpected unavailability of one juror on medical grounds and another's planned travel out of the country led to the adjournment…

State Prosecutors have been directed by the High Court in Accra to give their final oral addresses to the jury beginning October 16 in the trial of 14 persons accused of lynching Major Maxwell Mahama at Denkyira Obuasi in the Central Region. On June 6, both the prosecution and the defence lawyers signaled the closure of their respective evidences in the matter. After receiving all the records of Proceedings on June 26, they were directed by the Court to begin orally address to the seven-member jury in the trial from October 9, 2023. The Criminal Division of the High Court…

There was no show at Monday's hearing of the case in which some 14 persons are standing trial for allegedly lynching young soldier, Major Maxwell Mahama at Denkyira Obuasi leading to his death on May 29, 2017. This was because the seven-member jury panel was not properly constituted when the case was called with one of them officially informing the court through a letter. Justice Mariama Owusu, a Justice of the Supreme Court, sitting as an additional High Court judge, adjourned the case to May 29, which would be exactly six years when the young soldier was killed. In court…

One of the 14 persons standing trial for their roles in the gruesome murder of the late Major Maxwell Mahama at Denkyira Obuasi in the Central Region, Bernard Asamoah, has admitted hitting the deceased with a stone. The accused, who has been charged with conspiracy to commit murder and another count of murder, opened his defence before an Accra High Court yesterday and told the court that he arrived at the scene where the soldier had been lynched and as part of his plans to identify the deceased, he hit the motionless body with a stone. He had told the…