NOBLE ADU GYAMFI vs. THE REPUBLIC

ADINYIRA (MRS) JSC- Your Lordships permit me to start with this preamble: “It has been said that the evidence against the appellant is circumstantial, so it is but circumstantial evidence is very often the best. It is evidence of surrounding circumstances which by undersigned coincidence is capable of proving a proposition with the accuracy of mathematics. It is no derogation of evidence to say that it is circumstantial.” Per Lord Hewart C.J. in R. v. Taylor [1928] 21 CR. App. R 20 at 21 On 21 October 2008, Noble Adu Gyamfi (the Appellant) was convicted and sentenced to death for conspiracy, with one other person at large, to commit murder and murder of Paul Feghali a Lebanese national resident in Ghana. On 21 November 2013, the Court of Appeal, quashed the conviction and sentence on the conspiracy charge; but affirmed the conviction and sentence on the charge for murder The Appellant being dissatisfied appealed to this Court on the grounds that: i. The conviction for mu...