A 40-year-old hunter, Issifu Mohammed was last Tuesday put before the Sunyani High Court for allegedly killing a unit committee member at Kontoso village, near Nkoranza.

Mr Cab Beyuo, the Prosecutor, told the court that the accused and the deceased, Madam Fabea, 40 lived in the same area at Kontonso.

He said on August 31, 2000, all the residents of the village attended a funeral at another village but the deceased refused to go with them and went her farm for some foodstuffs.

The residents, on their return from the funeral in the evening, realised that the deceased had not returned from her farm and were alarmed.

The following day they went to deceased's farm where they found her body with a gunshot wound on her left hand and informed the Police.

Mr Beyuo said the accused left the village after the discovery of the body and this made the residents to suspect that he had killed the woman.

He said the accused later confessed to his uncle, Nindo Komba at Yendi and the uncle handed him over to the Police.

Mr Beyuo said the accused admitted the offence and told the Police he suspected the woman of bewitching him.