Lawyer for the convicted medical doctor, Sulley Ali-Gabass, has said they would appeal against the Accra Circuit Court’s ruling that sentenced their client to 25 years imprisonment.
A verdict was Monday morning handed in a case in which Dr. Ali-Gabass, a senior medical officer at the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital stood accused of defiling a child under 16 years and engaging in unnatural canal knowledge.
The accused denied knowledge of both charges through his lawyers. They had prayed to the Court to dismiss the prosecution’s claims and discharge the medical doctor.
But the Court after months of hearing dismissed the application for no case and went ahead to convict him for defilement. He was handed a 25year sentence.
Following the sentence, his lawyers are arguing that their client was not treated fairly and would fall o the opportunity that exists at the High Court and appeal against the “opinion of the Circuit Court”.
“We are going for a copy of the ruling of the Circuit Court and study the appealable issues and appeal against the ruling,” he told Fiifi Banson on Anopa Kasapa on Kasapa 102.3 FM Tuesday.
He said even when one carefully studies the phase of the ruling, “there is an appealable issue because in our opinion the maximum sentence wasn’t the best.”
According to him, the age of the boy who was the center of the defilement case was even to clear during the trial and believes that bases with which the trial judge ruled on the case was questionable.
But a Human Rights Lawyer, Francis Sosu, who was simultaneously interviewed by Banson and claimed to have monitored the proceedings of the trial said the Court ruling meant “justice was achieved.”
By: Kasapafmonline.com/Ghana
