MAN DIES FIGHTING TO WIN BACK 'WIFE' (MIRROR, PAGE 35)

From Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu,
Takoradi
One blow from a suspected wife snatcher, in what could have easily passed for a normal fight between two rivals, has sent the supposed husband to his grave at Kojokrom in the Sekondi/Takoradi metropolis in the Western Region.
The woman in the centre of the controversy had two children with her late ‘husband’ who had not performed the marriage rites. This compelled this woman to pack out of the man's house to her father’s, insisting that the man should perform the rites before she returned.
According to a police source at the Takoradi Central Police (Criminal Investigations Unit), the deceased, Samuel Boham, was said to have tried to win back his wife , but all was to no avail.
Accordingly, the source said, when he saw his wife in the company of the suspect, John Ackon, at Kojokrom Train Station, it did not go down well with him, and his attempt to get her on his side did not work either. This attempt, unfortunately, resulted in a fight between him and the supposed wife snatcher.
The source said attempts by onlookers to intervene also failed and the first blow from the suspect on the face of Samuel Boham sent him falling heavily on the ground.
An attempt by his friends to revive him yielded no result, and was thus rushed to the Effia-Nkwantah Regional Hospital, where he was pronounce dead.
The suspect, the police source said, was then arrested and charged with murder. He is currently on remanded in police custody assisting in investigations.
The suspect told the police that he did not know the deceased anywhere, and was surprised that he attacked him.
He said he, the lady at the centre of the controversy, and other passengers boarded the same taxi from Sekondi to Kojokrom, where they both alighted and moved in the same direction.
According to the source, the suspect claimed they later parted company after a brief conversation.
The police said Ackon alleged that no sooner did he part company with the lady than he was punched by Boham.
He said Boham (the deceased) continued to be on the offensive, and he (Ackon) also decided to retaliate, but the first blow he dished out sent Boham to the ground. There and then, he left the scene after onlookers had intervened.