Fred Poku Sarkodee

Fred Poku Sarkodee was a High Court judge and one of the three judges abducted and murdered on 30 June 1982. He was born in Koforidua in 1926 or 1927.

At Adisadel College he joined the 1948 student strike over the arrest of the Big Six and was expelled, so he finished his A levels with private tutors. He studied at Fourah Bay College in Sierra Leone and read law in London, completing his studies at the Middle Temple in 1961. He then joined the Attorney-General's office, became a senior state attorney in 1966 and a High Court judge on 22 May 1971.

His judgments protected women's rights before the Intestate Succession Law of 1985. In Abebreseh v Kaah (1976) he held that a widow who had contributed substantially to her husband's estate could not be deprived of the fruit of her labour, and in Addo v Addo (1973) he found that persistently refusing a young wife sexual relations was unreasonable behaviour. He was seized during curfew with Justices Cecilia Koranteng-Addow and Kwadwo Agyei Agyapong and Major Sam Acquah, whose abductors called them "enemies of the revolution". He was married to Yvonne Sarkodee and had five children. His bust stands at the Supreme Court.