Tamale (Northern Region) -- Gabriel Kwoa Bosso, 64, a Medical Assistant at the Nakpanduri Health Centre, and his friend, Ayuba Kansuk, 37, a farmer, were on Tuesday sentenced to death by hanging by the Tamale High Court for murdering a woman who was seven months pregnant.

The two were found guilty by a seven-member jury, presided over by Justice R.T. Aninakwa, on charges of attempted murder and murder of Deborah Bigol, 30. Presenting the facts of the case, Rexford Owuridu, Senior State Attorney, said that on December 24, last year, the family of Deborah became alarmed following her failure to return home after almost three days.

Her father reported the case to the police and following a tip off, the two were arrested but they denied knowledge of her whereabouts. However, the prosecutor said that further investigations later revealed that Kansuk found Deborah’s body on the bed of Bosso when he was cleaning the room. The two then decided to chop it up into pieces and flush it into the water closet. They then collected the bones into a box and buried them.

A pathologist from the Baptist Medical Centre at Nalerigu and a police team accompanied the accused persons and when the septic tank of the water closet was opened, the decomposed pieces of the flesh were found. However, the genital, breast, jaw and the foetus could not be found. The two pleaded not guilty.