Dr. Raymond Abudu Kasei, a lecturer at the University of Development Studies (UDS), Navrongo Campus, who has been on remand in connection with the death of his wife, Clara Leo-Atampagram, yesterday sought bail at the Fast Track High Court, Human Rights Division.
Egbert Faibille, counsel for Dr Kasei, in the company of Nashiru Yussif and two other lawyers, yesterday appeared at the Human Rights Court presided over by Justice Kofi Essel Mensah, without the lecturer.
However, the case could not be heard due to the fact that the Attorney-General�s (A-G) Department was not ready for the hearing on grounds that they were short served.
Merley Wood, a state attorney in another matter who happened to be around at the time the case was called, informed the court that they did not receive the docket on time.
The state attorney wanted the matter to be adjourned to enable the state to go through the docket before appearing in court.
Mr. Faibille did not oppose the adjournment, saying they were ready to wait for the prosecuting attorney from the A-G�s Department, who would be given the docket for the hearing to begin.
The case has been adjourned to November 30, 2011.
The lecturer has, since November 7, 2011, been in police custody in spite of claims that Clara hanged herself and left behind a note explaining why she decided to end her life, leaving behind their two children.
He has currently been arraigned before a District Court in Amasaman.
Counsel for the lecturer believes that once the pathologist report on the deceased attributed the cause of death to strangulation through hanging, there was the possibility of Abudu Kasei being granted bail.
However, the police believe that there was more to the case than what had been said due to seemingly conflicting evidence in Abudu Kasei�s narration and the fact that he decided to take the deceased to the Nsawam Government Hospital without first informing the police about her death.
The police officer who initially handled the case, Chief Inspector Kofi Annan at the Amasaman District, said he had given the docket to the Homicide Unit of the Police Headquarters to handle.
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