Missing Corpse Found

Asamankese (E/R), Aug. 28, GNA - The eight-month-old mystery surrounding the missing corpse of Madam Dora Nyakoa at the Asamankese Government Hospital had been solved.

The solution came when a body exhumed at Esuaso in the West Akim District on the orders of the Asamankese Circuit Court Judge, Mr. S.S Appiah, turned out to be that of Madam Nyakoa, who died on January 25. When relatives of Madam Nyakoa went to the morgue on March 17 they could not find it and this led to the arrest of Francis Lamboe and Abdulai Lamin, mortuary assistants. They were charged with stealing the body.

While they were being tried before the Circuit Court their counsel, Mr Samuel Klayson, told the Court that there was a body at the mortuary that was not covered by records.

When it was checked it was suspected to be that of one Abena Gyima, whose body was recorded as having been collected by relatives for burial at Esuaso.

Mr Klayson pleaded with the Court to order the exhumation of the body for examination by a pathologist.

When the case was called on Wednesday, the Prosecutor, Police Inspector J.F Idan, told the Court that when the body was exhumed on August 22 relatives of Madam Nyakoa instantly recognised it as that of their missing relative and the body had since been brought back to the mortuary.

The Court acquitted and discharged the two mortuary assistants and ordered the body of Madam Nyakoa to be released to the relatives for burial.