Emmanuel Ndego, a 56-year-old farmer on Wednesday butchered his wife, Fati Kusasi, 45, to death after a quarrel and later committed suicide by drinking a poisonous chemical at Tepa in the Ahafo-Ano North District. The bodies of the two had been deposited at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) for autopsy.

Mr Joseph Opoku, Superintendent of Police in charge of Tepa District, told newsmen that at about 02:45 hours on Wednesday, Ndego accompanied by some inmates of House number TWS 104, Tepa reported himself to the Police that he had killed the wife.

He was subsequently arrested and placed in Police custody not long after he started vomiting blood. Police Superintendent Opoku said upon questioning, Ndego confessed having drunk a poisonous chemical after committing the murder.

He said before the Police could take him to the hospital he collapsed and died. The Police later retrieved the body of Fati Kusaasi that was lying in a pool of blood in the room where the couple stayed. The head was almost severed.