Sergeant murdered for allegedly having sex with a man's wife.

Mr Abdul Karim, a 31-year-old fisherman has been arrested by the Tamale Police for allegedly causing the murder of a police sergeant at Nasia in the West Mamprusi District of the Northern Region.

The Regional Crime Officer Police Superintendent Aikins K.Darkey told newsmen on 27th December 2002, that Karim visited his wife at about 6 pm and found that their one-year-old daughter was sick.

He therefore went back home but later round 10.30 pm he decided to visit them for the second time to find out about the condition of the girl.

Superintendent Darkey said when Karim arrived at the house; he heard somebody screaming in the room and this was soon followed by talks. He suspected that their daughter's sickness had deteriorated and this made him to force his way into the room only to see a man on his wife on the floor having sexual intercourse with her

Karim then picked a club and used it on the man. He later identified him as a policeman and rushed to the Nasia Police Station to make a report.

Upon the report, the police accompanied Karim to the house and saw the victim, John Anabila unconscious with multiple injuries.

He was rushed to the Walewale District Hospital but was later referred to the Tamale Teaching Hospital where he died on December 28th.

Meanwhile, the police had invited the suspect's wife, Madam Lamisi Tinadayor to Tamale and she confirmed that Sergeant Anabila was having sexual intercourse with her at the time her husband entered the room.

Madam Tinadayor had since been examined at the Tamale Teaching Hospital and the results proved that there were no sperms in her private part.

Karim is in police custody while Tinadayor is helping the police in their investigations.