E/R: Rejected lover kills girlfriend

A jilted lover has allegedly killed his girlfriend at Trom, a suburb of Koforidua in the Eastern Region.

The gruesome incident occurred on Saturday, June 17, 2023, at Junction 5 in the Trom community.

It is alleged that the victim was breaking up with the suspect and hence relocated to the current location.

According to some co-tenants in the house when the incident took place, the suspect visited the girlfriend at a time when a naming ceremony was ongoing in the house.

The deceased girlfriend, believed to be 23 years old, went out to meet the suspect outside and brought him to her room.

It appears the suspect killed the victim amid the noise of the naming ceremony; therefore, nobody heard the victim’s distressing scream for help.

He allegedly struggled with her and pushed a piece of cloth into her mouth before slitting her throat.

He threw the knife used to commit the gruesome act into a bush at the back of the house before sneaking out.

The suspect, who is in his 30s, reported himself to the police later in the evening while wearing a red shirt with the inscription “Rest in Peace” at the back.

The body was retrieved in cold blood by police after they took inventories of the crime scene and deposited it at the morgue.

Police brought the suspect to the crime scene Sunday afternoon around noon to search for the knife used to commit the act but were not successful.

Some angry youth in the community thronged the scene and threatened to attack the suspect.

As tension rose, police whisked the suspect into a taxi and left the scene.

Source: Starrfmonline