{"id":777979,"date":"2020-01-07T19:12:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T19:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2020\/01\/07\/bog-driver-shot-dead-girlfriend-he-checked-into-hotel-with-police\/"},"modified":"2020-01-07T19:12:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T19:12:24","slug":"bog-driver-shot-dead-girlfriend-he-checked-into-hotel-with-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/07\/bog-driver-shot-dead-girlfriend-he-checked-into-hotel-with-police\/","title":{"rendered":"BoG Driver Shot Dead Girlfriend He Checked Into Hotel With &#8211; Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Police investigations have revealed that a Bank of Ghana\u00a0driver murdered his girlfriend\u00a0with whom he had\u00a0checked into the Cedar Crescent Hotel with at Danyame in Kumasi.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the police, Edwin Awuku, 42, shot and killed Comfort Owusu Afriyie alias Maame Yaa, 46,\u00a0discounting complaints by the suspect\u2019s wife that her husband and his girlfriend\u00a0were attacked by an armed robber at the Hotel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Tuesday, the police said Mr Awuku last Thursday\u00a0at about 1\u00a0am checked into the said hotel with the victim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile in the hotel room, Mr Awuku shot the victim in the chest and killed her, with suspect Awuku sustaining an injury on his left forefinger in the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr Awuku then left the Hotel premises unnoticed and drove to his residence at\u00a0Amakom to inform his wife about the incident,\u201d the police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The statement added that Mr Awuku\u00a0\u201calso dropped the murder weapon and his mobile phone at home and proceeded with the wife to the hotel to raise alarm as though there had been a robbery, drawing the attention of other persons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspect and wife then went to the Central Police Station to lodge a complaint of robbery and murder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The police say they have retrieved the exhibits;\u00a0Smith &amp; Wesson SD 9mm Pistol, an empty shell casing and an Infinix Hot 5 mobile phone from suspect\u2019s residence at Amakom.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect has been arrested and is in police custody.<\/p>\n<p>A case docket is being prepared for onward transmission to the Attorney General\u2019s Office for the necessary action, the police statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<strong>Myjoyonline<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police investigations have revealed that a Bank of Ghana\u00a0driver murdered his girlfriend\u00a0with whom he had\u00a0checked into the Cedar Crescent Hotel with at Danyame in Kumasi.\u00a0 According to the police, Edwin Awuku, 42, shot and killed Comfort Owusu Afriyie alias Maame Yaa, 46,\u00a0discounting complaints by the suspect\u2019s wife that her husband and his girlfriend\u00a0were attacked by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":745692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - 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