Residents of the Airport Residential Area at Sunyani last Tuesday saved a woman from being murdered by the husband.

Jon Bio, the husband, now in the hands of the Police Women and Juvenile Unit (WAJU), was said to have charged on the wife, Charlotte Boamah, 30, with a sharp cutlass. He had accused her of cheating on him and even threw the cutlass at her in their room but missed her narrowly.

He then dashed for the weapon and chased the woman to butcher her but her shouts for help attracted some neighbours who went to her aid. Not satisfied, the suspect damaged a wardrobe recently bought by the wife, threw out her belongings amidst threats of death if she should not pack and leave. He was arrested in the early hours of Tuesday.

According to Assistant Superintendent (ASP) Alex Yartey Tawiah, head of WAJU, the suspect, an employee of the Cocoa Marketing Board (CMB) stationed at Goaso, was in December last year, bonded for similar incident when he hit the wife on the check with the head of a cutlass and threatened to kill her.

ASP Yartey Tawiah said during the Easter holidays, the woman asked permission from the suspect to visit her grandmother at Mankessim in the Central Region. The suspect granted the permission and gave her money and she left their two daughters. Since her return, after two weeks stay at Mankessim, the suspect had been taking offence of every trivial and rained insults on her amidst accusations of her infidelity.

At about 6 am on the day of the incident, the suspect got angry when the wife pleaded on behalf of a young lady who was being reprimanded by her mother of staying out late. The suspect was said to have told the wife that her intervention suggested that she and the young lady were of the same feather. When the wife got angry over the husband’s statement, the man picked the cutlass and threw it at her.

ASP Yartey Tawiah said the couple had been married for nine years. He expressed concern about the spate of spousal violence in most parts of the region and called on the public to help WAJU by reporting such incidents promptly for the necessary action.