Legal professionals for Patricia Asiedua, popularly referred to as Nana Agradaa, have introduced plans to file an attraction on Monday, difficult the 15-year sentence handed right down to the controversial evangelist and founding father of the Heaven Approach Champion Worldwide Ministry.
Agradaa was convicted by the Accra Circuit Court docket on expenses of charlatanic commercial and defrauding by false pretence. The fees relate to a 2022 televised broadcast wherein she falsely claimed to have powers to double cash for the general public, a scheme that led a number of people to half with money in hopes of monetary acquire.
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Regardless of the conviction, her attorneys have strongly criticised the ruling, insisting the sentence is “extreme” and was imposed merely to fulfill public opinion attributable to her notoriety.
The court docket has spoken, however we disagree with the whole lot. Regardless of our disagreement, we’ll set off the attraction course of on Monday
,her lawyer instructed reporters following the ruling.
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The defence argues that not all expenses have been substantiated by proof in the course of the trial.
When the prosecution closed its case, we made it very clear that some expenses had no supporting proof. In reality, the court docket acquitted and discharged her on some counts as a result of no proof was led in the course of the trial,
the lawyer mentioned.
If no proof was led, on what foundation do you convict and sentence her within the first place?
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he questioned.
The defence crew additionally highlighted what they described because the trivial quantity concerned within the case.
The quantity in query is simply GH¢540. How can somebody allegedly defraud one other of such a small sum and obtain 15 years in jail with onerous labour?
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the lawyer argued.
Agradaa’s attorneys additional claimed that the court docket’s resolution was influenced extra by her public picture than the info of the case.
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I’m very clear in my thoughts that Agradaa has been jailed due to who she is, not due to what she’s alleged to have achieved, we imagine these sentences are sometimes handed not on advantage however to appease the general public merely due to her id and fam
,he concluded.
In accordance with her attorneys, Agradaa's 15-year jail time period is an 'extreme' sentence designed to appease the general public. They’re set to file an attraction on Monday.#3NewsGH pic.twitter.com/VZWN3nZssb
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The authorized crew is predicted to file a proper attraction early subsequent week as Agradaa begins serving her 15-year sentence, which incorporates onerous labour.
