Sunday, October 12, 2008

OCTOGENARIAN MURDERED (MIRROR, PAGE 30)

From Emmanuel Modey, Ve Koloenu

The murder of an 82-year-old man at Ve Koloenu in the Hohoe Municipality is causing a lot of panic and anxiety in the farming community.
According to the police at Hohoe, the deceased, Gilbert Nkansah, considered one of the eldest in the community, was found lying in a supine position with his head brutally crashed while his brains and other membranes had scattered at the road leading to the market on October 1, this year.
The body of the deceased has been deposited at the Hohoe Municipal Hospital Mortuary for autopsy.
The police source said the hospital authorities later detected that apart from the head that was badly damaged, the tongue, eyes, heart, membranes, and scalp were all missing.
The police source said a suspect, Paa Kwesi Gale, a 40-year-old man, had been arrested by the Hohoe Police and was assisting in investigation.

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