The Eastern Regional Police Command has urged managers of hotels and Guesthouses to demand national Identification cards from individuals who lodged at their facilities and take proper records of their details.
This, according to the Police, would facilitate investigation in case of crime.
Speaking to mybrytfmonline.com, the acting Eastern Regional Public Relations Officer of the Eastern Regional Police Command Sergeant Francis Gomado said, the advice has become necessary following increasing cases of unnatural deaths in hotels and Guesthouses in the region.
A young woman believed to be 25 years of age was stabbed to death by her boyfriend in a room they lodged at Gameli Guest House in Somanya in the Yilo Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region.
The woman identified as Believe Sakitey and a young man who gave his name as Charles Tetteh to the receptionist, booked and checked into their room on Sunday, April 5, 2021, at about 3:00pm to spend the night and check out the next day.
However, none of them could respond to a knock on the room when they checked in time elapsed on Monday forcing the curious receptionist to open the door of the room which was not locked.
To the surprise of the receptionist, the woman was lying dead in a pool of blood on the bed but the man was nowhere to be found.
The Somanya Police were informed about the incident which investigators were detailed to the scene.
Later, a team of Investigators from the Regional Police Headquarters in Koforidua was also dispatched to the scene for crime scene analysis.
The investigators found in the handbag of the deceased an identity card bearing the name Believe Sakitey.
The knife which was stained with blood and wrapped in black polythene kept under the mattress was also retrieved.
The body was conveyed to the Atua Government Hospital morgue for preservation as efforts are underway to arrest the suspect now at large.
The suspect is yet to be arrested.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
