Pakyi District Court remands man for allegedly killing 17-year-old 2024 BECE candidate
Pakyi District Court in the Atwima Kwanwoma district in the Ashanti region has remanded into police custody a 32-year-old Kofi Asamoah, for allegedly killing a 17-year-old 2024 BECE candidate Daniel Ofosuhene.
The suspect, also known as Castro, will reappear in court on Tuesday, August 30, 2024.
Daniel Ofosuhene, a final-year student at Konkori D/A Junior High School, was stabbed in the chest with a pair of scissors by the suspect in an attempt to separate a fight between two lovers.
The sad incident happened at Trede in the Atwima Kwanwoma district on Wednesday, July 10, 2024, at the victim’s residence around 8pm.
The prosecutor, ASP Samuel Mensah, told the court presided over by Her Worship Dora Nsiah Jackson that the fight was between 17-year-old Juliana Asamoah and her ex-boyfriend Kofi Asamoah.
Presenting the fact to the court, ASP Samuel Mensah said Juliana Asamoah’s new boyfriend, Kofi, who is in Accra, called Juliana on the phone and said Castro had broken into his room and stolen his items.
Juliana then called Castro on the phone, questioned, and accused him of the theft, which angered Castro who immediately went to Juliana’s house that night, ASP Mensah added.
“Castro who was in a furious rage went to the girl’s house to answer the accusation, but when he found that Kofi (Juliana's new boyfriend) was not around, he wanted to snatch a mobile from the girl and led to the fight,” he stated.
ASP Samuel Mensah further said the deceased (Daniel Ofosuhene), a friend to Juliana, with another boy, in an attempt to separate them, pushed Castro. Castro who was not happy, pulled a pair of scissors and stabbed Daniel Ofosuhene in the chest.
He continued that Castro also stabbed the boy in the thigh, and seeing that Daniel Ofosuhene had collapsed and bleeding on the ground, Castro took to his heels, but he was arrested by the residents and sent to the police station.
Daniel Ofosuhene was rushed to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, but was pronounced dead upon arrival, ASP Mensah concluded.
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