A 22-year-old hairdressing apprentice has died under mysterious circumstances in her boyfriend’s room at Assin Nsuta in the Assin South District of the Central Region.
The unfortunate incident happened on Thursday, November 23, 2023, around 8 pm.
The report indicates the deceased Maa Adwoa, also known as Mary Aidoo bled profusely and died following an illegal medication her 27-year-old boyfriend, Emmanuel Addo, administered to her to terminate a two-month-old pregnancy in order to save his marriage.
To conceal the news from the locals, the report added that the suspect who is currently in police custody assisting investigation kept the body in his room until afternoon around 1 pm on Friday, when all his housemates had left the house for their daily activities.
The suspect, accompanied by his closest confidante whose name has been identified as Archimedes, called a taxi to take the deceased to Assin Anyinabrim Health Center but was referred to St. Francis Xavier Hospital in Assin Fosu where the doctor on duty pronounced her dead on arrival.
Realizing the consequence of the offense, the suspect was advised to hand himself to the police to avoid the full rigors of the law which he abided by.
The source disclosed that the Police during the investigation retrieved some pills and empty pill wrappers in the suspect’s room and kept them as exhibits.
Also some drug shells were also picked from the deceased room including pregnancy test kits during a thorough search.
Even though the case is yet to be submitted in court, the family of the suspect and some traditional leaders in the community, led by an Asafoakye who bears a stool name Nana Abena Darkoah a.k.a Patricia Korankye, an aspiring assemblymember for Assin Nsuta Electoral Area, have reached out to the bereaved family to settle the matter out of court.
The source revealed that in an effort to convince the bereaved family in the negotiation, they pledged to take responsibility for the funeral, the cost of the coffin, and some compensation with the notion the deceased is dead and gone forever and could never return when the suspect is incarcerated.
Meanwhile, some of the bereaved family who seems to have agreed to the terms wants the agreement to be documented to minimize the risk of future misunderstanding and disappointment.
Consequently, the police at the Cetral North Regional Command have launched investigation into the matter to unravel the truth.
