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Crime & Punishment of Friday, 3 February 2012

Source: GNA

Half Assini Police arrested callous fisherman

' Half Assini (W/R) Feb. 3, GNA - Stephen Sae alias Akwasi Atta from Abrebeano near Komenda in the Central Region who stabbed Kofi Abekah at Effasu near Half Assini to death and bolted to Cote d' Ivoire, has been arrested by the Half Assini Police .

The Jomoro District Police Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) John Ferguson Dzineku disclosed this to the Ghana News Agency in an interview at Half Assini on Thursday.

DSP Dzineku said Atta was arrested by some Ghanaian fishermen at Mamaa near Big Assinie in Cote D' Ivoire who had heard of the callous crime he had committed, and handed him over to the Half Assini Police.

The Police Commander related that both Atta and Abekah used to fish at Effasu near Half Assini in the Jomoro district of the Western Region.