3rd Teenager Sunyani Murder Suspect In Court

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KILLED! Ruth Ama Eshun

A THIRD teenage suspect has appeared before a Sunyani Magistrate Court in connection with the murder of a 58-year-old cobbler.

Derrick
Opoku, 18, an undertaker, was arrested from his hideout at Yawhima, a suburb of
the Sunyani municipality in the Bono Region.

Already, two others — Bismarck
Adjei aka Junior, 18, who is also an undertaker and Gideon Baah aka Daa John,
19, a carpenter — are
facing two provisional counts of conspiracy and murder over the death of
Kwabena Awusi at Sunyani Area Two.

The three suspects have been
remanded by the court presided over by Fred Obikyere until February 25 to
enable the police to continue to investigate the matter.

Per police account, Derrick Opoku
managed to escape when Bismarck Adjei and Gideon Baah were arrested over the
murder.

Prosecuting, Inspector E. T. Addo
told the court that a labourer reported the suspects and the deceased who
resided in the same area at Sunyani Area Two to the police.

He told the court that on the night
of 17th January 2020, at about 2 am, the labourer and Awusi slept in the open
and the complainant said he heard an unusual noise and when he checked it was
Bismark who was strangling Awusi.

The prosecutor said the labourer
then raised the alarm and saw Bismark and Gideon taking to their heels. He said
when some residents came to the scene they found Awusi lying dead with multiple
wounds on the neck and shoulder.

The prosecutor further informed the
court that about 30 minutes later the complainant spotted Bismark at the same
Area Two and observed blood stains in his yellow and black round neck shirt.

He raised the alarm again and the
suspect was arrested and sent to Sunyani municipal police station.

He said the second suspect, Gideon,
was later arrested from his hideout at the same vicinity and added that a
search in his room revealed a blood-stained machete slightly washed.

He said the machete and the round neck shirt had been sent to the police forensics laboratory in Accra for analysis.

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FROM Daniel Dayee, Y Sunyani