The Koforidua District Court “B” has remanded the commercial driver,Hagan Abeiku, who allegedly killed his wife at Oyoko, suburb of Koforidua of the Eastern region.
The prosecuting officer prayed the court to remand the accused into police custody to enable police conclude investigation.
The court granted request by prosecution and remanded the accused to reappear in court on January 31, 2023.
Suspect Abeiku Hagan, was arrested on Sunday January 15, 2023 in his hometown Breman Esiam in the Central region where he went into hiding after committing the heinous crime on Friday.
The arrest was facilitated through effective collaboration between police in Effiduase and Asikuma.
The Effiduase District Police command went for the suspect after his arrest and brought him to Koforidua Sunday evening.
Family members and friends of the deceased woman, Gifty Tetteh and some residents thronged to the Police station demanding the release of the suspect to lynch him.
The suspect was taken to the crime scene Monday by heavily armed police officers.
Nonetheless, some angry family members and residents attempted to whisk the suspect away to lynch him but the police managed to protect him out of the crime scene .
Philip, a witness who was one of the first family members to rush to house when the incident occured says the heinous crime occured in the presence of two children of the couple.
He however presumed the children were sleeping.
Philip narrates that, “I was on my way to work when I was informed about the incident so I rushed to the house and saw my sister lying dead in a pool of blood in supine position with one hand at her back,with two fingers cut off, with deep cutlass wound on her neck and lower side of the head.They had two young children ,one was sitting beside the mother’s body whilst one was seated in a chair apparently naive about what has happened”.
Father of the deceased,Teye Philip commended Ghana Police Service for its swiftness in arresting the suspect.
“After the heinous crime he went into hiding he kept changing his location to people who called him .so we later heard he was in Central region.We gave the information to the police who also processed to arrest him.We thank the police Soo much I think the police is doing well nowadays”
Teye Philip revealed that, he built a house for the now deceased daughter and the suspect husband to live in at Oyoko .Purchased commercial vehicle for him to work from Koforidua to Kasoa therefore shocked he threatened to kill the daughter and mother-in- law .
Uncle of the deceased,Wofa Kwasi, who was also at the police station alleged that, the recent misunderstanding between the couple arose after the suspect accused the now deceased wife of infidelity.
” Gifty narrated to me that the husband had threatened to kill her many times which when she decided to walk away,people intervened to plead. So upon hearing that I decided to separate them for a year for the issues to be resolved. Abeiku was not happy with my proposal accused me of collapsing his marriage but I told him threat of death is a crime which even had to be reported to the police.So the woman went to her mother’s place to celebrate the Christmas and returned Thursday. on Friday morning while on my way to work I was told on phone that Abeiku has killed the wife”.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
