The Cape Coast High Court II presided over by Justice Alhaji Mohammed Mustapha on Friday sentenced two friends to a total of 90 years imprisonment for raping a girl leading to her death.
Ernest Andoh popularly called Kweku Ata 31, a radio mechanic and Francis Bill Manu, popularly called Abeiku 32, a tailor and residents of
Cape Coast were goaled 45 years each.
They had pleaded not guilty for the charges of Manslaughter, Rape and Conspiracy but were found guilty by the seven-member jury that tried the case.
The Principal State Attorney Mrs. Hannah Taylor, presenting the facts, said the convicts on the night of February 5, 2004, went out on a drinking spree and came across the deceased one Dorcas Darkwa 20 and a student.
She said they lured the deceased into a drinking spot and gave her some drinks and she later got drunk.
Mrs. Taylor said the convicts then took her to the house of Andoh where the two had sexual intercourse with her in turns.
In the course of their act, the girl shouted for help and a witness who responded found Manu still in the act while Ata looked on.
She said after the act, the girl fell unconscious and Andoh dragged her out and hide the body behind a kiosk in front of his house and informed the police that he had found a dead body in front of his house.
Mrs. Taylor said the body was then moved by the police and deposited at the Central Regional Hospital Mortuary for autopsy.
She said the results of the pathologist revealed that the girl had died as a result of severe head injury and brain hemorrhage.
Mrs. Taylor said the two friends who bolted were later arrested and handed over to the police.