CCTV FOOTAGE SHOWS KKD AND COMPLAINANT ROMANTICALLY KISSING

Security footage from the African
Regent Hotel showed Ghanaian celebrity,
Kwasi Kyei Darkwah, popularly known as
KKD, and the victim of a rape case
kissing before the alleged incident,
lawyers for KKD have claimed. They also
claim that the two were spotted by the
cameras in a similar embrace after the
incident was alleged to have occurred.
In their application for bail filed at
the Human Rights Courts in Accra on
Wednesday and sighted by
citifmonline.com, KKD’s legal team
referred to the footage from the CCTV at
the hotel, which they claim showed the
complainant “romantically kissing” the
accused person before the alleged non-
consensual sexual incident.
It added that “most importantly after
the alleged rape was said to have
occurred, the footage shows the accused
and the complainant walking together
from the hotel suite through the hotel
lobby in much the same manner as they
entered the hotel.”
This was one of the many reasons in
their bail application a copy of which was
served the Attorney General for advice
on which court should try the matter.
The lawyers filed the application at the
Human Rights court after the Accra
Magistrate court denied the renowned
broadcaster’s earlier application for
bail.
In an interview with citifmonline.com, a
member of KKD’s legal team, Gary
Nimako said, “We are seeking for the
bail from the Human Rights court
because the District court can’t grant our
client bail.”
“We will go back to the District court for
the main case but this court can’t grant
him bail that is why we have begun filing
processes at the Human Rights court for
his bail. So we want the court to hear the
bail application on 7th January, 2015,”
lawyer Nimako explained.
Alleged rape victim did not report to the
Police
The lawyers also questioned the claims
made by the complainant, arguing that
the allegation of rape was “a mere
afterthought” since the initial
complainant was not the alleged victim
but her male companion. “Surprisingly,
the person who the prosecution claims to
have been raped was not the initial
complainant in this matter but a male
companion even though she is an adult
female,” the application said.
They also added that it was suspicious
that the complainant “did not “report
[the alleged rape] to a close relative who
was in the same hotel suite with her.” “
The complainant came out of the
bathroom in the full glare of the other
two persons including her own cousin, in
the room and yet the facts do not show
that she informed either of them that
she had been raped by the accused
person whilst in the bathroom.”
KKD is currently in police custody after
being arrested on Saturday, December
27, after he was accused of rape of rape
by a 19-year-old, Ewuraeffe Orleans
Thompson.