Hammer Killer Appeared Invincible Until We Removed His Ring - Police

Aminu Alhassan, the man who killed his friend Abass Saani after travelling with him to Techiman to buy gold, is Brong Ahafo Region-bound, where he committed the crime.

The Techiman Police Command yesterday dispatched a detective sergeant to Accra to convey the suspect to the municipality for investigations to continue in the case.

The detective told Daily Guide that when they were alerted to the presence of a dead body at the Techiman market, they proceeded to the place and found the deceased on the ground with deep cuts on the left side of his head.

Lying on his side was a giant-sized hammer, the one used by quarry workers to break rocks and boulders, he said. A certain Ziad Abdulkarim, he said, turned up to identify the remains of the deceased as his son, soon after the discovery.

A confidante (name withheld) of the deceased told the police that the amount of money the deceased carried on him was not GH¢120,000 as reported earlier, but GH¢340,000. He said when the suspect returned to Maamobi, “I confronted him and told him that he had killed the deceased.”

Alhassan denied knowing the whereabouts of the deceased, he said, but when it became glaring that he had committed the crime, he was arrested. One of the policemen who undertook the mission to arrest the suspect said there was a bold inscription –‘Lion Heart’- in the suspect’s room, with a contact number beneath it. The inscription appeared to suggest that he was available for hiring to undertake criminal missions.

The police also found in his room an assortment of tell-tale items that suggested that he was a follower of an esoteric cult. “We had to remove a ring he was wearing to disable him. He put up a fierce fight and appeared invincible until we removed the ring,” one of the cops who arrested him narrated on anonymity.

His lavish lifestyle when he returned from the bloody mission did not attract attention at first. Even those who ported the items such as TV, air conditioner, got as much as GH¢50.00, DAILY GUIDE was told.

He became an instant philanthropist, doling out money to friends.

He appeared to be convinced that with some macho men in the area behind him, he could dangle the lie that he knew nothing about what befell his friend.

When the Greater Accra Regional Police Headquarters asked for his transfer to their end, their efforts to have him confess came to naught, as he insisted that he was not going to talk regardless of how hard they tried.

Back at the Nima Police Station however, he finally spoke when the police told him that the facts were available already and so he should just confess. He succumbed at that stage and put the pieces together.

The suspect was once arrested by the Nima Police for attempting to twist the neck of a certain young lady.

He did not look remorseful when Daily Guide went to the Nima Police Station last Thursday, and was asking for his money which, according to him, was lodged with the detective handling his case. He sounded as though nothing grave was at stake.

The suspect is a perfect example of the saying that the countenance of a murderer cannot be determined from his looks. He has a wan-look and is feeble to some extent, yet vicious to a fault.