BLIND WOMAN IN BED WITH CORPSE (MIRROR, PAGE 29)

From Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu, Sekondi

A blind old woman in a village near Sefwi-Asawinso in the Sefwi-Wiawso District of the Western Region was made to spend the night with a corpse when suspected murderers killed and dumped the body of a man in her bedroom.
The woman had no idea that she had been in the room with a corpse all night until she had some visitors later in the day who saw the body and drew her attention to it. And when she was told that she had spent the night with a corpse, she nearly collapsed.
According to the police, the deceased, Kofi Fofie, was likely to have been murdered elsewhere and put in the old, visually impaired woman’s room.
Her relatives, who had gone to visit her, found blood stains on her door frame.
The police said the blind woman, who did not know about her new “roommate”, had been going in and out of her room until her relatives drew her attention to the body in the room.
The woman, Madam Ama Mensah, told the police that she did not know that she had been living in her room with a corpse until visitors came into her compound.
She said the visitors had conversed with her and when they were about to leave, one of them asked her why there was blood on the door frame and parts of the entrance to the room.
To satisfy their curiosity and ensure that Madam Mensah was safe, the visitors followed the traces, only to discover the horror of a body lying supine on the floor of her room.
They then shouted for help. They also suspected that the deceased, a native of Sefwi-Asawinso, had been killed in the night and deposited in the room.
The police then proceeded to the scene and upon careful examination realised that there were bruises and some marks of assault and blood stains on the neck of the deceased. The face also seemed to wear a frown.
The Western Regional Police Crime Unit confirmed the story and called for public support to arrest the perpetrators. It said investigations were currently ongoing.
Meanwhile, the body of the deceased has been removed and deposited at the Asafo Catholic Hospital for autopsy.