Accra Court Rules...

Convicted of murder here in a celebrated trial, Mr. Hans Williams has placed his fate in Ghanaian, where a court has ruled against a pathologist that testified in the case and ordered it re-opened in Ghana. It is not clear if a Ghanaian court of law has jurisdiction over cases decided here.

The ruling from the Ghanaian court comes about a month before hearing into an appeal made by Hans Williams and his fiancee Mardea Paykur William to the Supreme Court hearing over the death of a 13-year old girl Angel Togba.

The Williams' family, based on the Ghanian court's ruling, are now threatening a US$5 million lawsuit against the government's Cuban pathologist Dr. Josefa Harnandez whose autopsy report, including other reports, presented in court here, was used to convict Mr Williams and his fiancee.

A spokesman for the family, Barsee Williams, told newsmen Tuesday that they were forced to file a lawsuit against Dr. Harnandez because the Human Rights Court in Ghana describe her autopsy report as reckless, baseless and without foundation after she failed to appear in the Ghanaian Court.

Earlier, the Williams' family filed a complaint to that Court in that West Africa Country citing several errors in her autopsy report that helped state lawyers to convict Mardea and Hans.

Barsee Williams: " The failure of Dr. Harnandez to appear in the Human Rights Court in Ghana as to the Writ and the ruling of the that Court clearly show that her autopsy report was bogus to find anyone guilty".

He claimed that there was a witch-hunt by the government through the then minister of the Justice Cllr. Philip Banks and the present prosecution team headed by Wilkins Wright, adding that they used state resources and public sentiment to sentence Hans and Mardea.

However, the Williams' family spokesmen used the occasion to call on President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to set up a committee of credible Liberians from the Liberia National Bar Association to urgently launch an investigation into the matter so as to give the Liberian people and international community a true picture surrounding the mysterious death of Angel Togba.

Mardea Payku Williams and Hans Williams were found guilty in a non-juror trial at Criminal Court 'B' in March of this year but their lawyers took an appeal to the Supreme Court citing 41 errors in Judge Blamo Dixon's final-judgment.