Farmer butchers wife

A THIRTY-YEAR-OLD farmer, Kakai Bawa, has butchered his wife whose name was only given as Ataa at Boama near Boankra in the Ejisu Juaben District.

Bawa is alleged to have invited the deceased to the farm to help him convey a snake he had killed to the house.

A police source said while on their way to the farm, the suspect allegedly butchered his wife and absconded after the act.

A source told the Graphic that on Monday, around 4 p.m. Atta who was preparing supper in the house had a message that the husband needed her to carry a snake he has killed in the farm to his house.

It said, Ataa who was then in the house in the company of her mother left for the farm, but minutes later, the mother heard her screaming, “mother save me, he is killing me”.

The source said the victim’s mother rushed to the scene only to find the daughter lying in the pool of blood with multiple cutlass wounds on her body.

It said Ataa and Bawa have been married for five years with three kids but continued to quarrel almost everyday.

It said Ataa had a miscarriage recently due to severe beatings she received from her husband.