Taxi driver, sisters conspire to kill sister’s lover
A taxi driver, Kwaku Enina, and his two sisters—Augustina Tetteh, an apprentice hairdresser and Ekua Mansa, a trader— have appeared before the Agona Swedru Circuit Court for allegedly conspiring with their mother to kill one Isaac Tetteh, 38, at Awutu
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Okwabena, near Bawjiase.
The late Tetteh was the lover of Augustina in whose room Tetteh died after spending the night with her.
The trial judge, Mr Nat K.E. Osam, who refused bail to the suspects, noted that since the deceased died in Augustina’s room and the corpse had been sent to the mortuary without the knowledge of the police, it would not serve the interest of justice if bail was granted.
He then adjourned the case to a later date pending the outcome of an autopsy to be conducted.
He has accordingly remanded the three in prison custody while police investigations continue. The police have also mounted a search for the mother of Augustina, Madam Abiokor.
Presenting the facts of the case, Chief Inspector Ivy Agadia said the complainant is Simon Gyan, a farmer and brother of Tetteh.
According to the prosector, Tetteh had been in a lover of Augustina for the past four years. He visited her on March 12, 2013 and spent the night with her.
By the next morning, Chief Inspector Agadia said, Tetteh was dead. Enina and Mansa took the corpse to the Agona Swedru Government Hospital mortuary and deposited it there without informing the deceased’s relatives.
According to the prosecutor, Madam Abiokor told her daughter to lie to the hospital authorities that Eninda bumped into the deceased at Bawjiase in a helpless situation and sent him to the hospital as a good Samaritan for treatment.
Story: Ekow Yamoah/The Mirror