GHANA: COURT SENTENCES FARMER TO DEATH

06 July 2009 :

the Ho High Court in Ghana, presided over by Mr Justice Kofi Essel Mensah, sentenced Kofi Fiaku, a farmer from Bekpoe near Dabala in the South Tongu District, to death by hanging for murdering his girlfriend.
In December 2008, Zashie Gbeve was hacked to death with a machete while returning from a funeral.
Fiaku was arrested on December 18, 2008, and admitted the offence, alleging that the girlfriend owed him GH¢90.

(Sources: Graphicghana.com, 05/07/2009)

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