Dr Sulley Ali Gabass
An Accra Gender-Based Violence Circuit Court yesterday dismissed the submission of no case application filed by lawyers for Dr Sulley Ali Gabass, the senior medical doctor at the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital in Sekondi.
The court presided over by Mrs Rita Agyeman-Budu threw out the application on the grounds that the defence counsel could not discredit the case of the prosecution.
In the view of the judge, thedefence counsel again could not prove that the prosecution could not provide enough evidence in the case.
Mrs Agyeman-Budu subsequently adjourned hearing of the case to May 13, 2015 for Dr Gabass to open his defence in respect of the trial.
However, the defence counsel orally applied to stay execution, indicating their intention to appeal the ruling of the court.
The defence counsel, led by John Benson, prior to the ruling yesterday, had over the weeks quizzed witnesses who had testified in the case. Among the witnesses werethe 16-year-old Senior High School victim, Dr Nii Aryeh, the surgeon from the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital and Joy FM’s Manasseh Azure Awuni.
The Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital senior medical officer is before the court for allegedly sodomising a 16-year-old Senior High School student.
Dr Ali Gabass has been in custody over a two-count charge of defiling a child under 16 years and unnatural carnal knowledge, an offence he has denied.
He is alleged to have, in the months of October 2013 and April 2014 at Kasoa and Alajo respectively, had unnatural carnal knowledge of the victim aged 16.
According to the police, in October 2013 Dr Gabass arranged and met the victim at Kasoa New Market Area where he forcibly had anal sex with the victim in his car in front of the Kasoa HFC Bank.
During police interrogation, Dr Gabass admitted knowing the victim as a friend, but denied having anal sex with him.
By Jeffrey De-Graft Johnson
jeffdegraft44@yahoo.com
Via: -Daily Guide
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