The jurors involved in the case in which two teenagers are standing trial for the death of 10-year-old Ishmael Mensah Abdalla, in connection with alleged money rituals, have waived their sitting allowance and transportation fees in solidarity with an absentee colleague from court duties on Monday, October 21.
The decision to waive these allowances was made to show solidarity with one of their colleagues, who was initially fined 100 penalty units, equivalent to GH¢1,200, for holding the "court and everyone" to ransom.
His absence from court means that the jury is not properly constituted, and, more importantly, the business of the day, which was to sum up and deliver a verdict, could not take place.
Justice Lydia Osei Marfo, a Justice of the Court of Appeal, who is sitting as an additional High Court judge, had last Tuesday, October 15, deferred the summing up of the trial to Monday, October 21.