A man has stabbed his 75-year-old mother to death, allegedly under the influence of drugs and alcohol, at Kwesimintsim in the Sekondi/Takoradi metropolis of the Western Region.
The family of the deceased tried to cover up the crime but the suspect, Kwame Ansah, 42, who bolted after committing the crime, later reported himself to the police.
“Please I stabbed my mother, Madam Afia Badu, and I did not know what came over me. Here I am,” he told the police.
According to the police, Ansah returned from his Kumasi base, where he had lost his job as a taxi driver, and took to excessive intake of alcohol and hard drugs.
They said when Ansah got to the house at Kwesimintsim, his stepfather was outside the kitchen, preparing fish for the evening meal.
The stepfather told the police that the suspect, without greeting him, entered the kitchen where his mother was then pounding fufu.
“A few minutes later, we heard his mother screaming,” the stepfather said.
Before his stepfather and other members of the household could go to Madam Badu’s rescue, Kwame had bolted.
The injured mother was later rushed to the Kwesimintsim Hospital, from where she was transferred to the Effia-Nkwantah Regional Hospital where she was pronounced dead a few hours after arrival.
Some members of the family, in their attempt to cover up the crime, told the police that there had been a fight between two people and that the deceased, while trying to separate them, was stabbed in the process.
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