Hotel Receptionist rapes sleepy client next to sleeping husband

Police in Accra are investigating a bizarre incident in which a hotel receptionist is accused of raping a client in the presence of her husband.

The regional coordinator of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service, DSP Owusu Kyeremeh who confirmed the incident to JoyFM said the accused, Henry Kabi, has admitted penetrating the woman but did not discharge in her because he wore a condom.

Narrating how the incident occurred, the police officer said the couple passed the night at the Olive Guest House in Kisseiman, after entering Accra on February 17, 2010.

In the middle of the night, the victim, in a trance of some sort, noticed a man was on top of her ‘pounding’ his waist away but assumed that it was the husband and so opened up.

It was only after her body touched a third person on the bed that she realized an intruder had broken in. It turned out that it was the intruder who was on top of her. She then shouted, waking up her sleeping husband after which the 32-year-old Kabi was apprehended.

The accused in an interview with JoyFM said he only attempted to have sex with the woman but was caught in his tracks.

"I removed the cloth... I was trying to have sex with her but which I couldn't," he confessed.

According to him, he entered the room through the window to switch off a loud television which was disturbing other clients in the hotel.

This he claimed, was after persistent knocks on the door had gone unanswered.

On his way out, he tried calling the man to inform him that he had switched off the Television. It was then that he said his hand touched the woman’s thighs, he explained.

He said he removed the cloth around the woman but was caught before he could penetrate.

DSP Kyeremeh said investigations are ongoing to ascertain other facts of the case.