A 19-year-old second year student of the Emit Electronic Institute in Accra has hanged himself in his room at the Old Habitat residential area within the Assin Fosu Municipality.

Gideon Bansah left no suicide note but the motive behind his action was believed to be a rift he had with his father on that day.

Briefing The Mirror, the Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Kwabena Owusu-Bempah, the Assin Fosu District Commander of the Ghana Police Service, said Bansah was found hanging on a nylon sponge in his room.

ASP Owusu-Bempah said Bansah traveled from school to Assin Fosu on Thursday, December 12 and later left for town in the evening but never returned to the house until the following morning.

He said when Bansah returned home, his father was said to have rebuked him and advised him not to engage in those nocturnal escapades again.

According to the district commander, Bansah, apparently not satisfied with the father’s rebuke, entered his room and was never seen again.

It was when some of his siblings realised that he had kept too long in his room and decided to find out what the problem was that they found him hanging.

ASP Owusu-Bempah said the family informed the police who removed the body for autopsy at the St Francis Xavier Catholic Hospital at Assin Fosu.