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| Kweku Baah, the suspect |
Kweku
Baah, who went into hiding after allegedly butchering a 41-year-old mother of
six, Regina Ayobayo Kpabitey, at Anyesu near Asesewa in the Upper Manya Krobo
district of the Eastern Region has been arrested.
The
woes of Baah, has further deepen as another case of attempted murder emerges
against him following his arrest.
His
other victim, who survived an alledged attack by the suspect, was said to have
escaped death by a hair’s breadth about two years ago but has been living with
a deformity ever since.
Baah,
the family indicated, had been on the run until he was alledged to have recently
butchered Regina, his latest victim, at Anyesu which resulted in his eventual
arrest.
Background:
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| Madam Koryoe-Bio Korli, the first victim |
Narrating
the ordeal to The Mirror, Matey Daniel Korli, spokesperson for the family of
the first victim, said Baah was a farmhand to Koryo-Bio at Korlieteh, a peasant
community near Ehiamekyene in the Fanteakwa district of the Eastern Region where
they both lived until the incident.
He
said on August 31, 2015, both the suspect and the victim went to the farm to
harvest some foodstuff for sale as has been the practice.
In the
process, the suspect made aggressive sexual advances on the victim who resisted
him, resulting in a scuffle.
Baah is
reported to have slashed the victim’s forehead with his machete but the latter
became even more resistant, amidst screams and desperate attempts to run to
safety.
Her
shout for help attracted some members of the community to the nearby farm, but
Baah dashed into the bush and went into hiding.
Following
the attack, the victims, aside the deep cut on the forehead, was said to have
lost her left index finger and sustained a cut on the right thumb. She was then
rushed to the Begoro District hospital where she was treated and subsequently
discharged.
A
report was lodged at the Bepoase Police station, near Ehiamekyene but all
effort to track the suspect yielded no result until his eventual arrest on
Wednesday August 2, 2017 at Patsleni village by the Asesewa Police. He has
since been transferred to the Koforidual Divisional Police Command.
Burial of the second victim:
Last
week, The Mirror reported the murder of 41-year-old Regina Ayobayo Kpabitey,
alledgely committed by Baah on August 29, 2017 at Anyesu, a farming community
near Asesewa where both victim and suspect lived until the incident.
After
the act, the suspect absconded and it took a search party to discover the
decomposing body of the victim a day after, hidden under a heap of leave and debris
on their farm.
A
report was then made to the Asesewa Police who conveyed the corpse to the St.
Martins Hospital, Agormanya.
The
deceased has since been buried, leaving behind six children aged between 22 and
7 years.
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| The Mirror, Friday August 11-17,2017 (Front page) |
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| The Mirror, Friday August 11-17,2017, page 3 |
