Crime & Punishment of Thursday, 24 January 2008

Source: GNA

Pupil allegedly murdered at Suhum

Suhum (E/R),Jan. 24, GNA- The police at Suhum, in the Eastern Region, are investigating the death of Efua Densua, a nine-year-old pupil of the Suhum Islamic Primary School. She was allegedly murdered on a cocoa farm and left at the outskirts of the Suhum-Adakwa road at the weekend. Mr E.K. Amoako, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Police Commander in-charge of Suhum District, who confirmed the story to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Suhum, said the deceased's body was found with blood oozing from the nose and legs and arms tied. Mr Amoako said the deceased, who lived with Monica Owusu, her grandmother, at Suhum Gariba Zongo, was on January 20 this year, sent by the grandmother to buy matches from a near-by store, but was never seen again until the body was discovered. refused to go to school.