Crime & Punishment of Tuesday, 7 January 2020Source: 3news.comMan who killed 'side chick' in Kumasi hotel arrestedFile photoThe 42-year-old boyfriend of a middle-aged woman shot dead in a hotel room in Kumasi last Thursday has been arrested by the Police in the Ashanti Region for the crime. According to the Police, suspect Edwin Awuku lodged a complaint at the Kumasi Central Police station that armed robbers had attacked the hotel and killed his 46-year-old girlfriend, Comfort Owusu Afriyie, also known as Maame Yaa. “…There was no robbery attack at the hotel”, the police said in a statement issued Tuesday by the Ashanti Regional Police Command. “Police Investigation into an alleged murder of a woman at the Cedar Crescent Hotel at Danyame, Kumasi indicates that the deceased was shot and killed by the suspect Edwin Awuku, 42, the boyfriend who checked into the hotel with the victim,” it said. The police statement said Awuku went straight to his residence at Amakom and informed his wife about the incident.

Source: GhanaWeb January 07, 2020 09:22 UTC