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6 KNUST students remanded for raping 1st-year student
Wed, 3 Aug 2022Source: Ebenezer Akandurugo
Six students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have been remanded on Wednesday.
The suspects were accused of raping a first-year student.
The development comes after the suspects were arraigned at the Asokore Mampong District Court.
This is the second time a KNUST student has been charged with raping another student at the school.
The lawyer of the suspects, Richard Adu Darko in an interview with Accra-based TV3 after the hearing said that until proven guilty by the court or the suspects plead guilty, he believes his clients are innocent.
“Looking at the fact which have been presented to us, honestly we don’t see rape but that’s what they have been accused of and once someone is accused, the law says the person is innocent until proven guilty or the person pleads otherwise.
“So, now until they plead that they are guilty or a court of competent jurisdiction finds them guilty, they are innocent. At this material moment, this is a court of first instance and they have been brought here for purposes of remanding them into lawful custody,” he stressed.
According to him, he will go to the “appropriate forum” to get bail for the six students in order for them to take part in their end-of-semester exams.
Meanwhile, following today’s adjournment, a second hearing has been scheduled for Wednesday, August 17.
This is the second incident of this nature to have been recorded on the KNUST campus in the past three weeks.
