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The Kuntenase Magistrate Court in the Bosometwe District of the Ashanti Region has remanded into police custody suspect Emmanuel Boateng, 25, for alleged murder.
The suspect, a tailor, was picked up by the police on Saturday, April 23, 2022, to assist the police with investigations.
The police investigator, ASP Eric Akwaboah investigating the case prayed the court to remand the suspect into custody to enable the police to conclude its investigation into the alleged murder case the police believed the suspect has committed based on some confessions already made.
The request of the police was granted by the presiding judge who remanded the suspect into police custody to reappear before the court on 9th May 2022.
Kwaku Adu Gyemfi a 22-years old second-year Biological Sciences student of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) is said to have pursued a friend for him to pay a debt to aid his preparation for school.
The suspect allegedly lured the now deceased friend into a bush near Sewua where he was said to have clubbed him to death and stole his mobile phone (iPhone 11 pro max).
Confirmation
The Ashanti Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Godwin Ahianyo said at around 5:30 pm on April 22, 2022, the police in Feyiase had information that a body was lying in a bush at Sewua.
He said the police together with the assembly member of the area and some traditional leaders proceeded to the scene where a male adult dressed in a red T-shirt and blue trousers was found.
The deceased was identified as Kwaku Adu Gyamfi, a level 200 student of KNUST, who was lying expired.
He said an inspection conducted on the body revealed a swollen neck and blood oozing from the nostrils and a stick suspected to have been used to commit the crime lying about 200 metres away from the body.
Preliminary investigation
According to the police, a preliminary investigation indicated that at around 9am same day, a friend by the name of Emmanuel Boateng, visited the deceased at his house at Esaso-Kwablafo near Esreso and they both went out together.
However, the deceased did not return until his body was found later in the bush.
Police Alleged Confession
The police alleged that the suspect later told the police during interrogation that he owed the deceased some money which he was demanding to enable him to prepare for school.
However, ASP. Mr Ahianyo said the suspect alleged that because he was unable to raise the money, he lured the deceased to the area of the incident under the pretext of going to show him a plot his mother was developing.
According to the police, when they got to the area, the suspect asked the deceased to sit and wait for him while he attended to nature’s call.
It was while the deceased was sitting down waiting for him that Boateng allegedly hit him with the stick on the neck and took his mobile phone away.
The phone has since been retrieved by the police from the suspect’s room and the body deposited at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital morgue.
