Man jailed eight years over wife's death

A Sunyani High Court on Tuesday sentenced a 54-year-old man, Yaw Dwumfuor, to eight years imprisonment for stabbing his wife to death.

Dwumfuor, who was originally charged with murder had the charge changed to manslaughter by the court to which he pleaded guilty.

The court, presided over by Mr Justice Baffoe Bonnie, upheld his plea taking into consideration that he was a first offender of the law, and had been in prison custody for two years.

Mr Betuuriseeh Cab-Bayuo, Chief State Attorney, prosecuting said the accused had, for sometime, suspected his wife Yaa Sikayena of having an affair with another man, Hubert Yaw Donkor, of the Asutifi District Assembly.

Mr Cab-Bayuo said on August 9, 1999 Sikayena who had refused to accompany her husband to a funeral was later found in the company of Donkor.

Dwumfuor went to Sikayena's house later in the night but she was not in.

He found her and Donkor making love in Donkor's room and stabbed them both with a dagger.

Sikayena died from her injuries.