Suspects charged with murder, remanded

12:24 - 01 June 2017

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The Police prosecutor in the case prayed the court for a two-week remand of the suspects to allow them to investigate the matter thoroughly.

A magistrate court in Cape Coast has remanded the seven suspects who were in connection with the murder of Captain Maxwell Mahama.

A provisional charge of murder was preferred against the six suspects

The seven remanded suspects are: the Assembly man of Denkyira-Obuasi William Baah, Yaw Antwi, Bismarck Donkor, Kofi Badu, Kofi Nyame, Anthony Amoah an Okada operator and Philip Badu.

They were arraigned two days after their arrest.

Captain Mahama was the victim of mob justice by a group of residents in a town in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region. He was lynched to death and his body burned by residents who claim he was mistaken for a suspected armed robber.

His murder has shocked the entire country with social media awash with sorrow and outrage about the way and manner in which he was killed.

He was the only son of his mother and leaves behind father, Barbara, his wife and two young children.

Maxwell married Barbara in August 2012.