Crime & Punishment of Tuesday, 3 August 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• A 48-year-old father killed his wife in his daughter's presence• The daughter had told the father not to pull the trigger• The daughter is now scared to see his father after witnessing the eventA daughter who witnessed her father kill the mother in her presence says she take to her heels away from the shadows of her father anytime she sees him. Bashiru Kophy Nyaniba shot and killed 39-year-old Vida in the early hours of Monday, August 2, 2021, around 1 am. Prior to the shooting, the couple had had an argument at dawn in which their 13-year-old daughter, Comfort, stepped in to restore calm but the accused did not heed his daughter’s plea and went ahead to kill the wife. According to Comfort, her mother was the only person who cared for her and 3 other siblings as the father never provided for them. “It’s only my mother who takes care of us, my father would never give us money,” she said.
