BOY, 21 KILLED DOCTOR

Police officers investigating the brutal murder of 54-year-old medical doctor, Victoria Bernice Naa Okaikor Anyetei, believe that her assailant laid in wait in her Toyota Avensis, and pounced on her as she sat in her driver's seat to set off for work.

The car was parked in her driveway in a quiet cul-de-sac in Dartford, London.

David Quartey, the 21-year-old son of a Takoradi-based high court judge who was in her care, has been arrested in connection with the gruesome murder.

A postmortem showed that he allegedly plunged a kitchen knife 56 times into the neck and other vital parts of the paediatrician's body, snuffing the life out of her.

He made his third appearance before a law court on Friday, December 7 in London, United Kingdom.

A DNA test conducted on some teeth bite wounds found on the suspect's arm matched some human flesh that was left in the teeth of Dr. Anyetei, leading to Quartey's arrest.

It is believed that Dr Anyetei put up a fierce struggle against her attacker to the extent of plunging her teeth into his arm in an effort to survive but without success.

A member of her family, who spoke on condition that DAILY GUIDE keeps a tight-lip over his identity, disclosed that since the incident, neither David Quartey's mother, who is said to be a close lifelong friend of Dr Anyetei, nor any of his family members, have called to say sorry.

“It will even shock you that none of them came to her funeral,” he noted.

According to the family member, Dr Anyetei sent David Quartey to live with her in the UK about two years ago in order to continue his studies. This, he said, was a special favour she did her lifelong friend.

It is however alleged that on the day in question, Dr Anyetei and David were supposed to go to the latter's school to check on a few matters relating to his admission.

Two hours after her murder, it is alleged that David rang the house and told Andrew, Dr Anyetei's son, that his mother had been killed inside her car.

DAILY GUIDE's attempt to get Andrew, an only son who described his mother as his best friend, to give a testimony of his late mother, proved futile, as he was still grieving over her death.

Last Saturday, the MORTAL remains of the medical practitioner who was murdered on the morning of August 14, 2007, was laid to rest at the La Public Cemetery in Accra.

Until her death, Dr Anyetei, whose murder is still under investigation, worked as a consultant paediatrician at the St. Thomas Hospital in London.

The forecourt of the Ghana Trade Fair Company Administration Block, where the burial service was held, witnessed a lot of dignitaries from the political, medical and other professions who thronged the site to pay their last respects to the departed mother of one.

Notable among these were Jerry John Rawlings and Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, former first couple, and Hon E.T. Mensah, MP for Ningo Prampram.

Dr Anyetei was born on July 22, 1953 in La, a suburb of Accra.
After completing Methodist Infant School in Nkawkaw in the Eastern Region, she attended Swedru Secondary School in the Central Region where she obtained seven distinctions in her 'O' Level examinations.

She entered Achimota School for her 'A' Levels and gained a scholarship to study medicine in Prague, Czech Republic.

When she returned successfully from her studies, she worked for some years as a registrar at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital after which she obtained membership of the UK Royal College of Physicians.

She worked as a paediatrician in several hospitals in the UK including Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust, Lewisham University Hospital, Mayday University Hospital, Kings College Hospital and a host of others.

DAILY GUIDE will keep readers informed on later developments of investigations into her unwarranted brutal murder.

By Samuel Boadi