In a 14-page ruling sighted GhanaWeb, the court dismissed a substantive appeal by Gloria Appiah seeking ownership of Odartey Lamptey’s seven-bedroom house at East Legon in Accra. Gloria Appiah in her suit rehashed her earlier claims of assault and adultery which were all rejected in the first ruling. Just like the earlier verdicts, Justice Cecilia Don-Chebe rejected the allegations of adultery but accepted that the scars on Appiah which Lamptey admitted were indications of assault. “Even though I have found exhibit ‘C’ coming from the Police as unreliable, I accept the petitioner’s evidence of assault committed on her by the respondent. It granted the wife authority of the kids but ruled that Odartey Lamptey could not be made to pay extra money to the wife for the children as he discharged his fatherly duties until the DNA test.
