Koforidua Magistrate Court “A” has remanded the accused person who stabbed a student of Oyoko Methodist Senior High School to death.
The accused person will reappear before the court on July 27, 2022.
Eighteen (18) year old first year General Arts student Roland Asare, 18, was stabbed during a fight between his Uncle Nana Agyei and the accused Kwaku Kyere alias old Soldier a co-tenant in a compound house at Ogua near Koforidua Jackson Park on Monday, July 11, 2020 afternoon but died Tuesday at the Eastern Regional Hospital.
The Uncle of the deceased Nana Agyei, a painter, narrated to Mybrytnewsroom.com that, there was disagreement between the suspect and a mason who is renovating a toilet facility in the house which the suspect pulled a cutlass and stick but he intervened to separate them.
However, a few minutes later, he saw the suspect physically attacking his old mother Comfort Essaah but the suspect turned his anger on him when he attempted to rescue the mother.
This led to fisticuff which the now deceased boy attempted to separate them but was stabbed by the accused who had a knife hidden from him.
The victim was rushed to the Eastern Regional Hospital but was pronounced dead the following day.
The family of the deceased including comfort Essaah’s grandmother who raised him since the death of their mother in infancy wants justice to be served.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Obed Ansah