The Kade District Court in the
Kwebibrim Municipality of the Eastern Region presided over by Emmanuel K. Boadu
has remanded a suspect who allegedly hit the head of a colleague illegal miner
with stone leading to his death into Police custody.
The suspect, Kwadwo Owusu, 44
years, was remanded to reappear on January 21, 2021.
His plea was not taken after he
was provisionally charged with murder contrary to section 46 of the criminal
offense act.
The suspect, and two others
currently at large last week, allegedly hit the head of one Gyekye Matthew with
a stone and he fell unconscious during a confrontation over a mining concession
at Akyem Aworoso near Akyem Apinamang in the Denkyembuor District.
In the process, the victim was
rushed to St. Dominic’s Hospital, Akwatia for treatment where he was admitted
and passed on.
According to the Police, one
Desmond Anokye Frimpong, 27, accompanied by Grace Dankwah of Apinamang reported
with marks of assault in his palms and belly, and the former reported that
whilst he was returning to home after mining at ‘Awroso’ a suburb of Apinamang
with his friend Gyekye Matthew, 33, now deceased they were attacked.
The Police said, on reaching the
outskirt of Apinamang, three suspects namely Kwadwo Owusu, Kojo Awuah, and one
Cash also illegal miner attacked and ordered them to surrender their gold
because they went to mine on their concession.
However, they resisted and in the process suspect, Kwadwo
Owusu hit the deceased with a stone.
The Police said investigations
led to the arrest of suspect Kwadwo Owusu while efforts are underway to arrest
the other accomplices now at large.
The body of the deceased Gyekye
Matthew has been deposited at the morgue.
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