An Accra District Court has committed a man believed be in his late 30’s to stand trial over a charge of manslaughter at the High Court.
Earlier, the accused, Meyers was held for allegedly murdering his wife following a misunderstanding but the bill of Indictment from the Attorney General’s Office on November 2, this year, reduced the murder charge to manslaughter.
Meyers is said to have assaulted his wife Elizabeth Quartey, the victim during a misunderstanding in January this year at Korle-Gonno but three days after the incident, Meyers at dawn rushed to his wife’s family home to inform them that his wife was unconscious.
Meyers allegedly rushed his wife to the Korle-Bu Teaching hospital where she passed away whiles on admission.
Mrs. Joyce Debrah, a Senior Attorney from the Attorney General’s Department at the District Court said a post mortem report showed that Meyer’s wife died of severe head injuries.
Mrs. Debrah said the state intends calling four witnesses to make their case.
Meyers during the committal proceedings described his wife’s death as an ”accident.””
“”I was with my wife when I realized at dawn that she was unconscious so I visited her family house and informed them. I rushed my wife to the Korle- Bu Teaching Hospital and my wife was examined,”” Meyers told the court.
“Initially, my wife was responding to treatment but when the machine that the nurse was using on her stopped, the nurse informed me that she had passed on.
I drove my wife to the cold room and later the nurse gave me a form to send to the Police Station at Korle-Bu,”” Meyers said.
According to Meyers, a few minutes after he reached the Police Station a relative of his wife came there with my daughter.
He said the said relation asked my daughter to say to me that I have killed my wife.
Meyers defense counsel said they also intend calling two witnesses during the trial.
