The High Court in Accra has sentenced a 47- year-old man to life imprisonment for murdering his German wife and daughter at Kokrobitey in Accra.
The convict, Boigouna Aloys, was sentenced by Justice Mary Maame Ekue Yanzuh, after a seven-member jury returned a unanimous verdict of guilty on the charge of two counts of murder.
This was after the prosecution led by an Assistant State Attorney, Yvonne Yaachie Adomako, had called five witnesses to prove the prosecution’s case.
The convict, who hails from Burkina Faso, used a hammer to hit the head of his 53-year-old wife and further strangled his 14-year-old daughter in a bid to prevent her from reporting the matter to the police.
Background
According to the police after committing the act, the convict buried the two at the extreme end of their 10 plots of land at Kokrobitey in Accra to avoid any suspicion.
The police said it was the neighbours who noticed the sudden disappearance of the German woman and her daughter and a foul stench of a rotten animal emanating from
the compound of the convict; they reported the matter to the police, leading to the arrest of Aloys.
Stench
The police said their investigations discovered that the stench was that of a human being and suspected the Burkinabe of allegedly killing his wife and daughter.
“Convict has since confessed to the crime and added that he used a hammer to hit the wife in the head after a misunderstanding, thus killing her instantly and for fear that his daughter would report the matter to the police, he strangled the 14-year-old girl to death after which he buried the two on their compound.”
The two decided to move to Ghana to resettle after getting married in Germany. Reports indicate that the couple and their daughter arrived in the country in January 2020 and have been
living in their three-bedroom apartment sited on 10 plots of land located at Kokrobitey.