A mentally challenged patient has stoned her 52-year-old husband to death at Koforidua Aboabo in the Yilo Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region.

Police reports say about 5pm on Thursday a report was made to their outfit.

On reaching the scene, they gathered that Rebecca Lamptey, 45, used a flat grinding stone to hit the head of her husband severally, harming him to death.

The deceased was found lying in a prone position in a pool of blood injured on the head with a completely deformed face.

The suspect has been arrested to aid investigations by the Eastern Regional Police Command.