Residents of Agape, near Ablekuma in Accra, were filled with shock and sorrow yesterday, when they learnt of the cold blooded murder of a fellow resident, Kate Okyere, 46, by unknown assailants.
The deceased, a single mother of two who used to work with Vodafone Ghana Limited, was believed to have been strangled. The Odorkor District Police Commander, Superintendent Ebenezer Kweku Asare told the Times newspaper in Accra yesterday, that Kate’s younger sister informed the police of the murder at about 5pm on Tuesday.
The sister said she returned home from work at 4.30pm to find Kate’s lifeless body. He said a team of police officers who were dispatched to the house found the body in a supine position in the sitting room, with a rope around her neck and blood oozing form her nostril but there were not bruises on the body. Her bedroom had been ransacked.
Police suspect she might have been murdered in the bedroom and brought to the hall, Supt. Asare said also that they believed some items had been stolen from the room. The body has since been deposited at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital Mortuary for autopsy.