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Farmer lynched for beheading step daughter

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Farmer lynched for beheading step daughter A 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...