An 80-year-old farmer, Kwesi Arhin has been stoned to death by a man known as Kwabena Badu after he suspected the deceased of having an affair with his girlfriend at Assin Otabilkrom of Assin South District of the Central Region.
The incident happened on Wednesday May 29, 2024 around 7 PM when the suspect had information that her girlfriend Ekua Ansama has visited the deceased to spend the night with him.
He then rushed to the house of the deceased and hit him with sticks and stones to death.
The suspect Kwabena Badu has been arrested by Assin Darmang police command.
Information gathered by the Kasapa news Yaw Boagyan indicates that both the deceased, Uncle Kwesi Arhin and the suspect Kwabena Badu are not customary or legally married to the woman Ekua Ansama, who is believed to be in her early 40s.
According to an eye witness who is the deceased’s neighbor, the suspect Kwabena Badu threatened to kill him too if he tried to intervene, which scared him from rescuing the deceased old man.
Emmanuel Arhin, the grandson of the deceased explained that he had been advising his grandfather on so many occasions to let go of the woman Ekua Ansama since the suspect Kwabena Badu has been threatening to kill him several times, but his grandpa wouldn’t listen.
The body of the deceased has been deposited in Abura Dunkaw District Hospital morgue pending further investigations by the police.
