MAN, 22, ATTEMPTS KILLING WOMAN AFTER RAPE (BACK PAGE)

A suspect who raped a middle-aged woman in the bush and inflicted machete wounds on her at Axim in the Nzema East Municipality in the Western Region has been arrested by the police.
The suspect escaped after allegedly raping the victim and attempting to kill her.
The victim, a coconut farmer, was later rescued by other coconut farmers, who rushed her to the Eikwe Hospital and reported the case to the police.
The police arrested the suspect, whose name was given only as Millechie, 22, and said to have met the victim alone harvesting coconut on her farm.
Millechie is said to have asked the victim for her machete to break some coconut.
After he got hold of the machete he used it as a weapon and ordered her to strip naked after which he dragged her to the bush and forcibly had sex with her.
As if that was not enough, Millechie inflicted severe machete wounds on the victim, completely dismembering her left arm.
Narrating the ordeal to eyewitnesses, the victim said when Millechie realised she would report him to the police he started hacking her with the machete he took from her.
The woman, currently in coma at the Mission Hospital at Eikwe, has been amputated with several deep machete wounds on parts of her body.
According to the eyewitness, the suspect, who hails from Kikam near Axim, was taking a walk along the coast where the victim was harvesting coconut for her oil business.
Eyewitnesses said they saw the suspect running, but they did not know why until they heard the victim screaming for help as they got closer to the crime scene.
They said the woman narrated what happened to her and fell into coma before they arrived at the hospital.
The District Police Commander, ASP Ohene Gyan, confirmed the story and said the suspect, a hearing impaired person, was currently in police custody and would be processed for court.
He said the woman was currently receiving medical treatment at the hospital, but with the level of infection, it was very difficult for the medical team to help save her left arm and therefore, she had to be amputated.
He said the wounds that were inflicted on the other parts of the body were also very deep.
The district commander said it was not clear why after sexually assaulting the victim the suspect decided to hack her.
The police are currently investigating the incident.