MOHAMMED NORTEY AND GHANA PRISONS SERVICE [2004]DLCHRAJ6094

Date	2004-06-09
Suit No.	Our Ref: CHRAJ/228/99/1239
Citation No.	[2004]DLCHRAJ6094

DR. P.EYBONDZI-SIMPSON

[2004]DLCHRAJ6094
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >MOHAMMED
NORTEY<o:p></o:p>{COMPLAINANT}<o:p></o:p>AND<o:p></o:p>GHANA PRISONS
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</div>INTRODUCTION<o:p></o:p>The
Complainant petitioned the Commission for his intervention to release him from prison
custody in order to cure himself from stroke. He is paralyzed on one side of
his body.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>COMPLAINANT'S CASE<o:p></o:p>The
Complainant was convicted and sentenced by the erstwhile National Public
Tribunal chaired by Kwesi Aggrey Esq., on the 2nd February 1993 on a charge of
murder contrary to Section 46 of the Criminal Code 1960 (Act 29) and Section 16
of the Public Tribunals Law 1984, PNDCL 78.<o:p></o:p>The
Complainant was sentenced to death by shooting by firing squad and appealed
against the conviction to the National Public Tribunal, Appellate and Review
Division.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>INVESTIGATIONS BY
COMMISSION<o:p></o:p>Officials
of the Commission visited the Complainant at the Nsawam Prisons. He looked pale
and weak. The officials also noted that the
Complainant had benefited from Presidential Pardon on 1st July 2003.
The death sentence of the Complainant had been commuted to life imprisonment.
He had spent close to 15 years in the prison.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>OBSERVATIONS<o:p></o:p>