A prosecution witness yesterday informed the Accra Fast Truck High Court that his investigations revealed that it was Johnson Kombian who shot and killed two policemen at Nakkpanduri in the Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo District of the Northern Region, on October 17, 2010.
Deputy Superintendent (DSP) Hanson Gove of the Homicide unit insisted that Kombian, also known as �Nankpanduri terror� and other accomplices (at large) shot and killed Constables Prince Agyare and Owusu Frimpong and injured Corporal Osei Bonsu then on a motorbike after check point duties.
Kombian is standing trail for killing the two and injuring another and has pleaded not guilty to murder and two counts of murder.
Led in evidence by Marina Appiah Opare, Principal State Attorney, witness said with his 26 years in the Police Service, 17 of them at the Homicide Unit, he was able to gather credible information at the respective crime scenes that the accused committed the heinous crime that fateful day.
Asked how he got to know the accused, he replied the accused was arrested on November 24, 2010, in a joint Ghana-Togo Interpol operation and brought to the Homicide Unit.
Witness said the following day, he led a team of five policemen from Accra to Tamale to commence investigations into the case, and were assisted by the then Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo District Police Commander, Assistant Superintendent (ASP) Abdulai Mumuni.
He said he took photographs and measurements at the crime scenes which included the distances between the police check point and where the victim were shot, and where they fell apart and the distance between them.
Again he took photographs and measurements of where the 24 empty cartridges used in firing the victims were retrieved and the time their colleagues arrived at the scene on a rescue mission.
Witness said the accused managed to escape to Togo but when he got a distress call that his wife was sick at Nakpanduri decided to return to Ghana, and it was at this point that he was arrested.
He tendered in evidence, caution statements of the accused, photographs and the 24 cartridges retrieved at the crime scenes and they were not objected to by Kombian�s counsel.
The court, presided over by Justice Mustapha Habib Logoh, adjourned sitting to June 10.
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