His body was discovered in her girlfriend's bedroom, an official police residence at Kpetoe in the Volta Region on Thursday (Oct 26, 2023). The said girlfriend is a Superintendent of Police who was reportedly out of town in Ho at the time of the incident.
[name withheld] She is currently the Kpetoe District Police Commander.
The deceased,
said to be her fiance, has been identified as Billy Bless.
Bless's body has since been sent to the
morgue at the Ho Teaching Hospital (HTH) for preservation and autopsy.
Billy Bless, believed to be in his
mid-40s, a former employee of Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) was a son of the late
Paramount Chief of Gbi, Togbega Gabusu VI.
What
happened?
Sources close to the District Security
Council (DISEC) and the police command have told Graphic Online that Billy
Bless visited the Superintendent of Police in Ho on Wednesday [Oct 25, 2023].
The police officer was reportedly in Ho
to visit her ailing father.
Billy Bless,
according to Graphic Online's sources left the Superintendent of Police and her
father, without telling them where he was going to.
He, however, traveled to Kpetoe and told
the police commander's driver that he would sleep over in her official
residence.
The police driver then handed over the
keys to the house to him [Billy Bless].
The next day when the police driver realised the key had not been left at the usual place, he contacted the police commander who was still in Ho at the time to inform her about the unusual turn of events.
District Police Commander’s boyfriend
found dead in her bedroom
District Police Commander’s boyfriend found dead in
her bedroom
Alberto Mario
Noretti Oct - 28 - 2023 , 20:50
His
body was discovered in her girlfriend's bedroom, an official police residence
at Kpetoe in the Volta Region on Thursday (Oct 26, 2023). The said
girlfriend is a Superintendent of Police who was reportedly out of town in Ho
at the time of the incident.
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[name
withheld] She is currently the Kpetoe District Police Commander.
The
deceased, said to be her fiance, has been identified as Billy Bless.
Bless's
body has since been sent to the morgue at the Ho Teaching Hospital (HTH) for
preservation and autopsy.
Billy
Bless, believed to be in his mid-40s, a former employee of Tema Oil Refinery
(TOR) was a son of the late Paramount Chief of Gbi, Togbega Gabusu VI.
What
happened?
Sources
close to the District Security Council (DISEC) and the police command have told
Graphic Online that Billy Bless visited the Superintendent of Police in Ho on
Wednesday [Oct 25, 2023].
The
police officer was reportedly in Ho to visit her ailing father.
Billy
Bless, according to Graphic Online's sources left the Superintendent of Police
and her father, without telling them where he was going to.
He,
however, travelled to Kpetoe and told the police commander's driver that he
would sleep over in her official residence.
The
police driver then handed over the keys to the house to him [Billy Bless].
The
next day when the police driver realised the key had not been left at the usual
place, he contacted the police commander who was still in Ho at the time to
inform her about the unusual turn of events.
Carpenter’s
assistance
The
sources told that the Superintendent of Police then instructed
the driver to seek the assistance of a carpenter to open the door, and he
obliged.
Upon
entering the house, it was realised that the bedroom was locked, and it was
subsequently forced open, only for the body of the deceased to be found hanging
in the bedroom.
It was gathered that the deceased [Billy] and the
police commander were preparing to get married, when she found out that Billy
had another girlfriend with whom he had a child.
Separation
At that juncture, the police commander
reportedly told him to rather go after the other woman.
“That may have depressed him into taking
his own life,” a DISEC member told Graphic Online's Alberto Mario Noretti.
Investigations are however underway.
A source has told Graphic Online that the
incident was being handled as a case of suicide in the interim.
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