Man Guns Down Wife

Peter Gruma, a farmer believed to be in his late 50s, has shot dead his wife, Akosua Dayirini, 38, after which he committed suicide.

Peter Gruma hanged himself at a village called Abronye in the Yamfo area of the Brong Ahafo Region.

The bizarre incident occurred around 9.00pm on Wednesday night at the isolated village, inhabited only by the killer and his wife, together with their three kids, after a protracted squabble between the late couple. They left behind five children, three of whom are very young.

The farmer shot his wife with a single-barrel pump-action gun at the back near the ribs, from where the bullets penetrated her upper chest.

When the body was retrieved, there was a big hole in her chest, believed to have resulted from the shooting.

Residents of a nearby village told DAILY GUIDE that after committing the ugly act, the farmer fled the village in the night and went to his brother’s village; but failed to report the incident to him.

He then told his brother that he was going to pick something at the back of the house, and then went straight to a stream in a cocoa farm and hanged himself.

The station officer at the Yamfo Police Station, Inspector Nyarko, said the police received the report of the incident around 12 midnight.

He therefore dispatched his men to the scene on Thursday morning to convey the bodies to the mortuary.

The Duayaw Nkwanta District Police Commander, ASP Samuel Latebu, who went to the scene with pressmen and investigators, described the action of the farmer as very wicked.

He led the police team to convey the bodies to the Duayaw Nkwanta St John of God Catholic Hospital Morgue. He explained that autopsy will be conducted on the bodies before they are released to the families for burial.

Residents hinted DAILY GUIDE that the farmer, who was in the habit of drinking, always picked a quarrel with the wife anytime he was drunk.

According to them, the farmer publicly assaulted the woman at a funeral last Saturday at Duayaw Nkwanta, after accusing her of flirting around with men.

The report said the farmer threatened to teach her a lesson on their return to the village.

According to Abubakar Mohammed aka Alhaji, a resident of Ahyiem, near the village, since then, there had not been peace in the village as the farmer continuously quarreled with the wife.

Emmanuel Ansu aka Yamfo Alan Green, who farms around the Abronye Village, said he came upon the body of the farmer on his way to his farm on Thursday morning around 7:30am, with rope around his neck near the stream and raised the alarm.