Sillim Laar Elijah, the building contractor who allegedly used his vehicle to convey the three police officers supposedly shot by Johnson Kombian, appeared before an Accra Fast Track High Court yesterday.
Led in evidence by Principal State Attorney Marina Appiah-Opare, the witness said he and about four others in his Toyota Hilux pickup with registration GR 6321-R assisted the police to send the injured policemen to the Baptist Medical Centre at Nakpanduri.
According to him, the first police officer, excluding the other two they had rescued from the Nakpanduri scarp, was not breathing, adding that the officer was pronounced dead on arrival at the Baptist Medical Centre.
Laar Elijah told the court presided over by Justice Mustapha Habib Logoh that the injured persons were rushed to the theatre, where health personnel on duty had said that the cops had lost a lot of blood as a result of their injuries.
Laar and one Emmanuel were therefore compelled to donate blood for the two police officers.
After his testimony, counsel for the accused George Asamaney said there would be no cross-examination.
Kombian, a businessman is being held for killing two policemen in the Northern Region.
He and his accomplices, who are on the run, were alleged to have ambushed the three policemen resulting in the death two of them � Constables Prince Agyare and Owusu Frimpong.
Kombian has, however, denied the charge of conspiracy and two counts of killing the two police officers before a seven-member jury.
He has, therefore, been remanded in prison custody by the court to reappear on June 4
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