TEACHER SENTENCED TO DEATH (PAGE 43)

THE Sekondi High Court has sentenced a teacher to death by hanging for butchering a colleague and severing the two hands of his girlfriend.
Clement Andwi Ackah, 32, was found guilty by a seven-member jury on three counts of murder, use of offensive weapon and attempted suicide.
He tried in vain to commit suicide after the act by drinking insecticide and hanging himself.
Before judgement was passed by the court, presided over by His Lordship Justice Saeed Kwaku-Gyan, the convict pleaded with the court to tamper justice with mercy to enable him to go back into the community to work for the upkeep of the “girlfriend” whose hands he chopped off.
The facts of the case were that Ackah and his girlfriend, Ms Amina Ibrahim, as well as the deceased, Innocent Korbir, were all teachers at Tikobo Number 1 in the Western Region, but the convict suspected that Amina was cheating on him.
In June, 2005, Ackah travelled from his village to the teachers’ bungalow at Tikobo Number 1 and confronted Amina at about 12.30 a.m. to explain to him, the kind of relationship that existed between her and the late Korbir.
Before Amina could explain, the convict, who was armed with a machete, chopped off her two hands above the wrist.
Ms Klinogo said in a pool of blood and pain, Amina shouted for help, and the deceased, Korbir, who was a neighbour in one of the bungalows, came out to find out what was happening at that time of the night and Ackah attacked him with the machete, leading to his death.
Before passing judgement, the presiding judge said the conduct of Ackah was repugnant and heinous, adding that such people should be kept away from society.