An inscription on a cooking pot
placed by a dead body, ostensibly to prove that she was a thief, betrayed her
alleged murderers.
Egya Kobina Ampah, Kwame Annor and
Egya Atta, all fishermen from Mumford in the Central region, have been
arraigned at the Apam Community Tribunal presided over by Mr. Kwaku Aboagye on
provisional charge of murder.
Their pleas were not taken and
were remanded in prison custody to reappear on September 1.
Police Chief Inspector Richard
Doku, in charge of Apam Police Station, said on March 15, they received a
report that a dead body was lying at Mumford lorry station.
Chief Inspector Doku said when the
police arrived at the scene, they saw three aluminium cooking pots by the body
of a woman, who was later identified as Abena Essuman, 35, from Apam.
Abrasion on the body suggested
that she might have been lynched by a mob. He said the police saw the name of
Efua Mansa inscribed on one of the pots and upon investigations, it came to
light that it belonged to one Adjoa Amoako.
She and her husband, Egya Ampah
were subsequently arrested. Upon interrogation, Ampah confessed that the
deceased stole the pots from his kitchen and while she was being sent to the
police station, she was lynched by a mob including Annor, Atta and others now
at large.
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