Lecturer In Court For Murder

The Amasaman Police Command, according to DAILY GUIDE sources, is girding its loins to gather enough evidence against Dr. Raymond Kasei, a lecturer at the University of Development Studies (UDS), Navrongo Campus, to arraign him on provisional charges of murder.

Even though the Amasaman police commander, who led a team to brief the Accra Regional Command on developments over the mysterious death of the suspect’s wife, Clara, had remained tight-lipped, sources say the suspect is likely to be arraigned today.

Clara Kasei, a dental nurse, is alleged to have killed herself after a night of misunderstanding with her husband.

It is still not clear if the deceased who worked with the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital’s Dental Clinic had committed suicide by hanging as alleged or was murdered by her husband.

Clara met her untimely death in the early hours of Monday November 7, 2011 and her body was carried by her husband to the Nsawam Government Hospital ostensibly to deposit it at that hospital’s morgue.

Her elder sister and husband, who got wind of the mysterious death, reported the matter to the Amasaman police who caused the immediate arrest of Dr. Raymond Kasei at the hospital on suspicions of murder.

A source said Clara was last seen on Sunday evening at a residents’ meeting looking plump, adding that no one even knew about Kasei’s visit until stories of the alleged suicide broke. Neighbours also claimed they did not hear any whisper about the incident until the body was carried to the Nsawam Hospital.

Though Dr. Kasei had maintained that his wife with whom he had two children had died by hanging herself to a ceiling fan in the bedroom, the police have disputed that assertion after inspecting the crime scene.

The police noted, according to a source, that there were disparities in Dr. Kasei’s narrative and that of the situational report gathered by police, raising more suspicions about Kasei’s conduct.

Dr. Kasei, a graduate of the Bonn University, Germany, is reported to have been in handcuffs when he led police officers from Amasaman to their Damax Estates residence at Kuntunse, near Amasaman, to inspect the scene at about 7am.

The suspect, a lecturer at the Faculty of Applied Sciences of UDS, had told the police he broke the bedroom door on that fateful day, when his wife, who had locked the door after a quarrel the previous night, had not shown up that morning in the living room where he slept alone.

He alleged that he found her motionless body hanging by the fan.

Kasei has since not been able to name whoever had helped him to take his wife’s remains from the rope that hanged her to the fan.

A source said though there was a little bruise on the neck of the deceased, police maintained that that bruise was not enough evidence that the deceased had killed herself.

The Amasaman Police have however remained quiet over the matter, insisting they were not sure when the suspect, who is currently resting in their cells, would be hauled before court.

Clara’s remains have since been referred from the Nsawam Government Hospital to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital’s morgue pending autopsy.