A 24-year-old man, Yaw Johnson, has been arrested by Nkawkaw Police for allegedly stabbing a bread seller multiple times to death while selling bread at night.
The body of the deceased, 24 year old has been deposited at the Holy Family Hospital Morgue.
The husband of the deceased, Emmanuel Oppong Yeboah, rushed to the Nkawkaw Central Police Station on March 13, 2020 around 11:00pm to lodge an official complaint to the Police about the incident.
He told Police that, he received a phone call to the effect that the suspect- Yaw Johnson, 24, has stabbed the wife who was selling bread at the roadside at about 10:00pm without any provocation and has died on arrival at the Holy Family Hospital.
Police investigators proceeded to the hospital and found the deceased at the mortuary with multiple knife wounds in her abdomen and on her two hands.
According to the Public Relations Officer of the Eastern Regional Police Command, DSP Ebenezer Tetteh, preliminary investigation revealed that on the day of the sad incident about 9.34pm while selling bread at the Asona end of the Accra – Kumasi bypass, the assailant went on rampage to stab the deceased multiple times without any provocation. He said the suspect went into hiding after committing the heinous crime.
According to DSP Ebenezer Tetteh, the suspect was arrested the following day by police at Adumasua, a community near Nkawkaw and handed over to Nkawkaw Police where he is being prepared to be put before court.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Obed Ansah
