The paper carries a banner headline: “Battle over stolen car deal’ begins”, which says the legal battle in which Mr Newton Addy, brother of President Rawlings, is seeking to clear his name over an alleged theft of a Mercedes Benz car, began at the Time High Court on Thursday August 21. The Weekly Insight says the first move was made by Captain Nkrabea Effah-Dartey, counsel for the Weekly Insight and its managing editor, Mr Kwesi Pratt Jnr. According to the Weekly Insight, Captain Effah-Dartey filed a motin seeking an order of the court to transfer the case to Accra on grounds that the second, third and fourth defendants, who are the principal objects of the writ, are based in Accra. GRI
The Weekly Insight reports on its front page that a senior journalist on the ‘Guardian’ newspaper placed under surveillance by the British Secret Service M15, after she allowed 250,00 pounds to be deposited in her bank account by the former head of the Ghanaian Security Service, is considering suing the M15. According to the Weekly Insight, Victoria Brittain, the Guardian’s deputy foreign editor, has given full explanation to her Editor , Alan Rusbridger, for the decision that landed her in the middle of a full-scale M15 surveillance operation in the early 1990s. The Insight says Victoria Brittain, backed by her lawyer, Geoffrey Bindman, said she was wholly innocent to the charge, investigated by M15 “watcher”, that she knew the money was linked in a way to Libyan intelligence. GRI
