A young man who allegedly promised to kill his wife and commit suicide has been dragged to an Accra circuit court for threat of death.
The accused, Ebenezer Acheampong, is reported to have told his wife, one Ivy Nyarko, that her behaviour in their matrimonial home would cause him to travel that path.
According to the prosecution led by Detective Inspector Kofi Atimbiri, the accused on July 26, this year at Kwabenya, a suburb of Accra, threatened Ivy saying, “I will kill you like the policeman who killed his mother-in-law and two children and committed suicide.”
According to the police, the accused person’s utterance put Ivy into fear of death.
Before the domestic violence and gender-based court, presided over by Abena Oppong Adjin-Doku, the accused denied the offence and was remanded into police custody.
This was after the court had dismissed an application for bail filed by his lawyer, Jean Manrellel.
The court upheld the opposition for grant of bail by Detective Inspector Atimbiri.
He asked that assuming the complainant lied to the police, what about the death threat that happened at the police station?
The court, while adjourning the matter to August 8, 2016, advised the complainant to find an alternative accommodation.
D/Insp. Atimbiri said Ivy and Ebenezer had been married with four children but the couple, for some time now, had been having a series of misunderstandings, resulting in Acheampong assaulting his wife.
He said on the said day, the accused heard a news item on the radio announcing that a police man had murdered his mother-in-law and two children and committed suicide in Tema.
D/Insp. Atimbiri disclosed that Ebenezer called Ivy to come and listen to the news and he repeated it (news) to her. The police officer added that Ebenezer Acheampong further threatened Ivy that her behaviour in the house would lead to a similar act very soon.
This, the prosecutor said, put fear into Ivy who went to the Kwabenya police station to lodge a complaint, recalling that “When the accused was arrested he threatened at the station that when he comes home, the complainant should count herself dead.”
By Jeffrey De-Graft Johnson
jeffdegraft44@yahoo.com