Man beheads wife over Easter convention

A 35 year old man Kwaku Asamoah from the Asunafo district of the Brong Ahafo region has beheaded his wife Afua Tawiah, 30 on Good Friday.

Sources close to the Independent newspaper say the couple who have been married for five years and are members of the Assemblies of God church were preparing to attend an Easter Convention at Wamanafo, a village about 10 kilometres from Biaso where they live.


The suspect Kwaku Asamoah changed his mind somewhere along the line his wife still wanted to go for the convention but Kwaku Asamoah refused to let her go and a quarrel ensued between the two.


The deceased on the eve of Good Friday informed her husband of her intention to attend the convention but again Kwaku Asamoah refused.


On Friday Morning according to sources Afua Tawiah raised the issue again and again her husband re-affirmed his refusal to allow her to attend.


That infuriated Afua Tawiah and another quarrel started. The couple both of who are farmers quarreled for a while and stopped.


After a long lull sources say the couple started another altercation which soon evolved into a full fledged verbal fight at around 7pm.

At one point Kwaku Asamoah became so infuriated and entered their room.


Some of the people around the thought he was tired of quarreling and was trying to stop it by leaving the scene but they turned out to be wrong when Kwaku Asamoah according to sources rushed outside again wielding cutlass.


He set on his wife and by the time he was through with her Afua Tawiah?s head was severed from her body.


Realizing what he had done Kwaky Asamoah bolted.


The body of the deceased has been deposited at the Dormaa Presbyterian Hospital.


Meanwhile Kwaku Asamoah has reported himself to the Guaso police after the Dormaa police mounted a search for him.