Farmer lynched for beheading step daughter

Farmer lynched for beheading step daughter

Efua OtooA 45-year-old farmer was lynched by a mob after he beheaded his three year-old step daughter, Efua Otoo, at Kyekyewere in the Tarkwa Nsueam Municipality.

The incident occurred on Thursday around 10:40 hours and his body, together with the head of Efua, has since been deposited at the Effia Nkwanta Hospital morgue by the Nsueam police.

The older brother of the deceased, Enoch Thomson told the Ghana News Agency that his mother, Ataa Krobo, and his step father, who they only know as Kwesi, have been living together for the past five months.

He said on Thursday around 10:30 hours whilst returning from school to drink water at home, he met his step father holding a black polythene bag with a cutlass in it.

Thomson said there was nobody in the house when he got home so he started searching for his grandmother and sister, as his mother had left for the farm.

He said when he attempted to open one of the doors leading to a room, his step father asked him to leave the premises immediately else he will kill him.

Thomson said he became troubled and therefore decided to peep through the wooden window and to his surprise saw that his step father had beheaded his sister with a cutlass and was about to put the head into a black polythene bag.

He said he started screaming for help and in the process met his grandmother and narrated the incident to her and she in turn informed some members of the community.

Thomson said the youth in the town immediately organized a search party and after some few hours Kwesi was arrested with the head of the deceased and they subjected him to severe beatings.

The Nsueam police on hearing the issue rushed to Kyekyewere and saw Kwesi with severe injuries all over his body and decided to transport him to the Effia Nkwanta Hospital for treatment but he died on arrival.

Source: GNA


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