Daily Graphic

The Graphic reports that the Saltpond Community Tribunal in the Central Region, yesterday remanded in prison custody an employee of the Geological Survey Department at Saltpond for allegedly beating his wife to death over a cup of iced water.

The front page story says the suspect, Thomas Boadi, 47, allegedly kicked his wife several times in the abdomen after a quarrel at their home at Abandze when she failed to provide him with iced water during supper. Boadi has been provisionally charged with murder.

His plea was not taken and he will re-appear before the court on June 9. The Graphic says the Saltpond District Police Commander, Superintendent Kwadwo Oware, told the tribunal, chaired by Mr G.A.N. Donkor that the wife died after being rushed to the Saltpond Government Hospital by some co-tenants.