Kwame Anane, a 48-year-old farmer at Abotereye, near Bawdie in the Western Region, who allegedly shot at his fiancée’s vagina, has been arrested by the police.
The suspect allegedly carried out the barbaric act claiming that the fiancée, Adjeiwaa Nkrumah, 46, had for some time now been preventing him from having sex with her.
Confirming the story, Supt Timothy Dassah, Prestea Hunni-Valley police commander, indicated that Kwame Anane was put before court and had been remanded into police custody.
He indicated that last Saturday the suspect allegedly hatched a plan to kill his lover – who is a mother of ten children – for not allowing him to have sexual intercourse with her.
He pointed out that at about 7:30 pm on that fateful day, Kwame Anane went in for a locally manufactured pistol that used ‘B’ ‘B’ cartridges and stormed the house of Adjeiwaa Nkrumah.
Supt Dassah posited that the suspect met the fiancée and shot her in the thigh.
“But I cannot confirm whether the woman’s vagina was affected. We are waiting for an X-ray report for confirmation or otherwise,” Supt Dassah stressed.
He pointed out that after the suspect had purportedly committed the crime, he thought the woman was dead and so decided to commit suicide by taking poison.
“But the woman did not die; some residents rushed to the scene and took the woman to the hospital,” he said.
“The suspect also did not die after taking the purported poison and the residents arrested him and handed him over to the police,” the commander added.
From Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi