Man stabs wife for divorce threat

Kwaku Bonsu, 49, self-employed, caused panic in the Kasoa township last Tuesday when he stabbed his wife for allegedly threatening to divorce him.

Thinking that the wife, Mary Boakye, was dead Bonsu ran home and drank a poisonous substance believed to be ‘DDT’ to end his life.

It turned out, however that the wife only got injured and did not die. She is on admission at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital while the body of Bonsu has been deposited at the mortuary for autopsy.

Briefing the ‘Times’, a family source said that the couple had lived together for the past 10 years, without a child. Bonsu had earlier sacked his former wife and three children from his house.

The Times quotes its source as saying that there had been frequent quarrels between the couple over the maintenance of Mary’s three children by her previous marriage, which their church pastor had been settling.

Some time last year Mary left their rented home after one such quarrels to live in her own home which was near completion. Bonsu, through enquiries discovered where Mary was staying and went to plead with her to return to her matrimonial home but she declined and opted for a divorce.

Bonsu, according to the source, after failing with several pleas, became angry, charged on her in the early hours of Tuesday at the Kasoa market, where she was selling her wares, and stabbed her at the back.