The recent gruesome murder of three children whose bodies were cut into pieces and stored in a fridge at Abesim in the Sunyani Municipality of the Bono Region has left many in shock.
Residents have attributed the conduct of the architect to a mental case while others suspect he is into rituals even before the police conclude their investigations.
MyNewsGh.com however notes that it is not the first time a similar act has been perpetrated by someone in the country if the incident of Guabulaga near Walewale in the then West Mamprusi District of the Northern Region is anything to go by.
In June 2008 a 25-year old Amadu Osmanu killed his elder brother, cut his arms and cooked for a meal at their farm after both had a disagreement.
The suspected murderer a farmer killed his elder brother and cut off his arms, penis and scrotum following a misunderstanding and later buried the remains of his victim under a heap of rocks and leaves on their farm near the village.
Alongside the remains of the deceased Alhassan Osman was the hoe the suspect used in clubbing his brother to death.
Background
Alhassan Osman had gone to the farm earlier and never returned after days raising suspicion of what may have happened
His disappearance stunned the village whose youth organized a search party. The searchers combed the surrounding areas until the tell-tale evidence stood before them.
The search party became suspicious of the pile of rocks and leaves whereupon they sought what was underneath it.
There they saw the mutilated remains of the man they were searching for.
Upon examining it for a while they returned the rocks and leaves on the body and returned to break the news to the village.
Sensing that it was Amadu Osman who had killed Alhassan, they began searching for the suspect, and found him at last at the nearby village of Dimia , near Walewale.
The suspect led his captors to the scene where the remains of the deceased were removed from beneath the rocks and leaves.
But for the timely intervention of the then Walewale District Police Commander ASP Ernest Fosu and a team of policemen the suspect would have been lynched.
At the time of his arrest, the suspect had in his pocket, the cooked arm of his brother as well as the severed penis and testicles.
Some 300 or so metres away from the scene, he showed his captors a location where he buried two hoes, one of which he had used to kill his brother.
In his caution statement and the interview he granted the Police at the Walewale Police Station where he was being held, the suspect admitted to killing his brother.
He added that his murdered brother had stolen some of his maize and millet seeds which he was going to use during the planting season.
Continuing, he said his deceased brother had threatened to call in some other siblings to beat him up on the farm.
Sensing danger, therefore, he told the Police that he picked up his hoe with which he hit his victim several times on the head and back until he fell down unconscious.
Fearing that the deceased could regain consciousness and attack him, he severed his arms and manhood.
While in the bush where the suspect passed the night, he fed on the flesh of the deceased and then fled to Dimia village where he sought a farm job to earn some money to enable him eventually flee to Techiman which could offer a good hideout for him.
He was later apprehended by the police with support from members of the community
Sentenced to death by Hanging
The Tamale High Court presided over by, Mr Justice Lauren Mensah a Supervising High Court judge later sentenced Osmanu Amadu to death by hanging for killing his 50-year-old brother, Alhassan Osmanu after some confrontations on the farm.
A seven-member jury subsequently returned a unanimous verdict of guilty of murder.
Source: MyNewsGh.com
