FARMER ALLEGEDLY MURDERS MOTHER-IN-LAW

A 23-year-old farmer Kwabena Omari, has been remanded into police custody by the Nkawkaw District Magistrate’s Court accused of butchering his mother in-law to death at Sitey Kese. Police Chief Inspector Emmanuel Dadey, prosecuting, told the court on Friday that Omari and his mother in-law, Ekua Mansa, a 45- year- old farmer, lived in the same community. He said a quarrel ensued between Omari and his wife and the woman took her three children and went to stay with the mother. The prosecutor said on October 30 at about 2000 hours, Omari went to the in law’s house and took away two of his children. He later returned to take away the third one who is four months two weeks old and the deceased and Omari’s wife prevented him from doing so. That situation resulted in a quarrel between them. The prosecutor said the deceased left her house and set off to report the conduct of Omari to her husband in another house in the community. Omari allegedly pounced on the woman and slashed her with a cutlass and inflicted multiple cuts on her head, neck, jaw and the left arm and she died instantly. He said Omari also inflicted cutlass wounds on a Good Samaritan, Mr Maxwel Osei, also a farmer, who went to the aid of the woman when he heard her screaming. He was taken to the Nkawkaw Holy Family Hospital but later referred to the St Joseph Hospital in Koforidua for further treatment. Inspector Dadey said Omari fled into a forest reserve near the community but a search party brought him out and handed him over to the police.