Pentecost Deacon who killed wife dead

Kobina Bonsu, the deacon of the Church of Pentecost at Yamfo in the Tano district who beheaded his wife on Sunday and attempted to take his own life is dead.

He died at the Saint John of God Catholic hospital at Duayaw-Nkwanta. A hospital source confirmed to the GNA that Bonsu, 52, died at 12.50 a.m.

Bonsu murdered his wife, Anna Frempomaa Bonsu (alias Abena Frempomaa), 48,by slashing her throat with a machete. He then made an abortive attempt to commit suicide.

Before his death, GNA visited him at the hospital and had the chance to hear his last words.

Asked why he killed his wife, Bonsu replied, "I did it without a cause", and he pleaded with God to forgive him.