Kumasi: Married man kills mistress in hotel room
A 42-year-old man identified as Edwin Awuku has shot and killed his girlfriend at the Ceder Crescent Hotel at Danyame, Kumasi in the Ashanti Region where they checked in together police investigations have revealed.
According to the police, there was no armed robbery attack at the Hotel as was reported by the complainant who is the wife of the suspect.
The police say the suspect, on Thursday, 2 January 2020, at about 1 a.m., checked in at the hotel with the girlfriend Comfort Owusu Afriyie alias Maame Yaa, 46.
While in the hotel room, Mr Awuku shot the victim in the chest killing her instantly and the suspect sustained injury on his left forefinger in the process.
Mr Awuku, sensing danger, left the hotel unnoticed and drove to his residence at Amakom and informed his wife about the incident and dropped the murder weapon and his mobile phones at home.
Both the suspect and the wife went back to the hotel to raise alarm on the incident, drawing the attention of other persons.
Mr Awuku and his wife later drove to the Central Police Station, where an official complaint of an alleged armed robbery and murder was reported.
The police said they have now retrieved the exhibits: a Smith & Wesson SD 9mm pistol, an empty shell casing and an Infinix Hot 5 mobile phone from the suspect’s residence at Amakom.
Mr Awuku has been arrested and in custody while the docket is being prepared for onward transmission to the Attorney General’s office for advice.
Source: classfmonline.com
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