a Koforidua High Court, in Ghana...

a Koforidua High Court, in Ghana, sentenced a 37-year-old fetish priest to death by hanging after he was found guilty of murdering a 30-year-old trader, Rita Baah, at Okorase, near Koforidua. Joseph Tetteh, alias Mallam, was unanimously found guilty by a seven-member jury for murdering Rita, alias Afia Atta, at his shrine at Domeabra, a suburb of Okorase, on November 15, 2009.
The judgement came after a two-year legal battle in a case that saw most lawyers in Koforidua declining to defend the spiritualist in a bid not to incur the anger of residents of the regional capital where Rita was very popular.
Luckily, a lawyer from Nkawkaw, Mr Kin Hussein Ibn Alhassan, took up the case to defend the convict.