Lawyer angry over publication of juveniles names and photos

LAWYER FOR five students of Konongo Odumase Senior High School (SHS), who have been accused of stabbing dead their colleague student, has accused the police for publishing the names and identities of the suspects, who are all juveniles.

Registering his protest in the Konongo Odumase District Court on Monday, the counsel for the five suspects, disclosed that the police, who ideally should have known better, strangely published the names of the juveniles on their Facebook wall.

The lawyer for the defendants openly told the court that they had to vehemently protest to the police administration before the police did the right thing by pulling down the names and identities of the juveniles form their Facebook wall.

According to the lawyer, even though the police erred by publishing the names and identities of the juveniles on social media, he said the police quickly admitted their mistake when their attention was drawn to it, as they testified the mistake.

Meanwhile, the five suspects, have once again, were denied bail on Monday as they have been remanded into juvenile Cells at Juaso one-week before re-appearing in the Konongo Odumase District Court on Monday, November 22, 2021.

The lawyers argued that the suspects are juveniles “so per the welfare principle of the Juvenile Justice Act, the court has to consider their education and release them to their parents and report to court from home”, but the court rejected their plea.

The court stated that the school campus, where the deceased student suffered his fate some few weeks ago, still remains hostile grounds for the five juvenile suspects, therefore it was not safe to grant the students bail to go to the school now.

The court noted that the police are yet to conclude their investigations so the suspects had to be remanded into a juvenile cells so they could assist the police in their investigations, adding that the Attorney General’s Department should take over the case.