Trial of five Konongo Odumase SHS students adjourned to November 29
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The first-year student that was stabbed is said to have sustained knife wounds at the lower left ribs and died at the Konongo Government Hospital.
The Konongo District Court has adjourned for the third time, the case of five students of the Konongo Odumase Senior High School, who are facing trial for their involvement in the death of a first-year colleague at the school.
The Court during its last hearing on November 15, directed that a representative of the Attorney-General’s Department should be in court on the next adjourned date so the case could be transferred to the High Court.
However, no representative of the Attorney-General’s Department showed up in court on Monday.
The case has been adjourned to November 29, 2021.
On November 8, the Konongo District Court remanded the five students to the Juaso Juvenile Detention Center for seven days.
The first accused person has been charged provisionally with murder, where as the four others were charged with abetment to commit a crime.
They were arrested over the stabbing of Larhan Samu’un, a first-year male student of the same school, on Friday November 5, 2021.
According to the police, preliminary investigations revealed that the juveniles had led other senior colleagues to bully first years on campus on the night of Friday, November 5, 2021, after prep hours.
The first-year student that was stabbed is said to have sustained knife wounds at the lower left ribs and died at the Konongo Government Hospital.
