Man strangles girlfriend and commits suicide

Cape Coast (Central Region) - Many residents at 'Aboom Wells', a suburb at Cape Coast were shocked on Tuesday when a young man allegedly strangled his girlfriend and later hanged himself in a room at a hotel he had lodged.

The girlfriend has been identified as Nafisatu Yamyolia Ananga, a 22-year-old level 200 student of the University of Ghana, Legon.

A source at the District Police Headquarters at Cape Coast told newsmen that on Wednesday, one George Lamptey, 26, alias 'Joy Chuqunda', staying in Accra, was found hanging in his room at about 0630 hours.

The source said Lamptey checked into the hotel on Monday morning at about 1100 hours and later left for town.

It said later a girl came looking for him but she was told he had gone out so the girl left a note for him. When Lamptey returned from town the note was given to him, he went out again, came back at about 2000 hours and went to his room.

The source said the following day the receptionist at the hotel, who was on his usual rounds knocked at Lamptey's door at about 0630 hours but there was no response and since the door was not locked, he went in and found Lamptey hanging from the ceiling with a bed sheet tied around his neck.

The source said the hotel management reported the matter to the police and whilst investigations were going on, the police had another information that the body of a girl was lying in a thicket at '4th Ridge', a suburb at Cape Coast.

When police examined the body they found that she had been strangled. The girl's family told the police that her boyfriend came looking for her on Monday and they identified Lamptey as the one when his picture was shown to them.