Woman died having sex, man in police grip

Ajumako (C/R), May 14, GNA - The Ajumako District Magistrate's Court, presided over by Mr Kwasi Boakye Enimil, has remanded Kofi Suang, a farmer from Budukwaa near Enyan Abaasa, in police custody in connection with the death of his girlfriend Abena Hammoah. The plea of Suang was not taken and the court ordered him to re-appear on May 21, 2009.

Suang is currently facing a provisional charge of murdering Hammoah, 53, a native of Nsawadze near Enyan Abaasa in the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District.

Prosecuting, Police Chief Inspector Maxwell Akorley told the court that on February 7, 2009, Suang visited his girl friend Hammoah at her village.

The prosecution said while the accused person was having sex with the woman, she became unconscious.

Chief inspector Akorley said Suang went out for a taxi to convey the woman to hospital, but she died a few minutes later. Sensing danger, the accused person absconded, went to Kumasi to inform his brother about the incidence, but his brother upon hearing the case brought him back to Enyan Abaasa and reported the case to the Police, who arraigned him, the prosecution said. According to the prosecution, post mortem examination conducted on the deceased at the Central Regional Hospital in Cape Coast could not reveal the cause death.

He said for further investigation, some organs of the woman have been sent to the Food and Drug Board for examination. Meanwhile the body has since been buried.