A 19-year-old boy of Kojokrom in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis did the unthinkable when he brutally and mercilessly stabbed his biological father to death last Sunday to the amazement of the residents in the farming community.
According to sources, the residents of Kojokrom are yet to come to terms with why a son could gruesomely murder his own biological father in that manner.
However, DAILY GUIDE gathered that the suspect, Thomas Awuni Gana, was said to have stabbed the father because the deceased sometime ago prevented him from plucking an unriped orange fruit from a tree at their residence.
According to eye witnesses, the deceased collapsed as a result of the cutlass wounds inflicted on him by his son and was rushed to the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital in Sekondi where he was pronounced dead.
Confirming the sad story to DAILY GUIDE in an interview, ASP Olivia Ewubane Adiku, Western Regional Police Public Relations Officer (PRO), noted that the deceased was one Thomas Nyaba, 45, and a watchman.
She indicated that on Sunday October 27, 2013 at about 2:10pm, the father and the rest of the family members including the suspect were relaxing at home.
She said the father unexpectedly slipped and fell down. Then suddenly without any provocation, Thomas rushed to the room and brought a knife, stabbed the father in the left arm and chest.
The father was rushed to Effia-Nkwanta but died around 5pm. She added that the suspect had been sent to court for him to be remanded to allow the police conduct further investigations into the case.
An eye witness, Kweku Jackson, who claimed he lived around the area, told DAILY GUIDE that he heard some shouting and screaming so he rushed to the scene and saw the deceased in a pool of blood. So he helped in sending him to hospital.
Another neighbour said she could not fathom why the 19-year-old boy could commit such a heinous crime.
She alleged that she also heard a loud wail coming from the deceased’s house so she rushed there and saw the gory state of the watchman.
She described the late Thomas Nyaba as affable, who was loved by majority of people within the vicinity.
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