June 23, 2010 (Page 3 Lead)
TRIAL begins at the Accra Motor Court on August 15, 2011 of the popular female musician, Nana Akua Amoah, alias Mzbel, and her two friends who are charged for assaulting a police officer.
The court fixed the date when the accused persons, who were granted bail by the Human Rights Court last Wednesday, appeared before it on Thursday.
Mzbel, Maxwell Mensah, a businessman, and Emmanuel Edem Lordzoh, a student, were on Monday refused bail and remanded in custody by the Motor Court to reappear on Friday, June 10, 2011 when they made their first appearance before the court, charged with traffic-related offences.
Dissatisfied with the lower court’s decision, counsel for the three, Mr Anthony Naamo, applied and secured bail for them at the Human Rights Court, presided over by Mr Justice Paul Uuter Dery.
Mzbel has pleaded not guilty to two counts of assaulting a police officer and obstructing a police officer from executing his duties.
Maxwell has been charged with four counts of unauthorised parking, resisting arrest and assault on a police officer, while Emmanuel is charged with driving without licence.
The two have also pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The accused persons are alleged to have committed the offence with a Mitsubishi vehicle, with registration number GR 9470 - 11, at Tudu in Accra about 12.40 p.m. on June 4, 2011 but the defence team has denied the charges.
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