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General News of Wednesday, 20 August 2003

Source: Insight

Serial Killer Speaks Out

... He Was Tortured To Confess......
... They Tried To get Him To Implicate JJ & Govt Minister

Charles Quansah, the man accused of being responsible for the serial killing of 34 women has began talking again and indications are that he may soon cause enough trouble for some political heavy weights. The Insight newspaper says it has had the privilege of listening to a one-hour tape recording of Charles Quansah and can confirm that it is more than explosive.

The paper says Quansah denied any involvement in the killing of the 34 women. “Our understanding is that the tape recording was done at the Medium Security Prison at Nsawam, where Charles Quansah is currently housed in the condemned cells. It is still not clear who did the recording and whether it was done with the approval of prison authorities”, the paper noted.

However, a prison officer is known to have been interdicted for allegedly facilitating contact with Quansah by unauthorized persons.

According to Quansah, his alleged confession to the murder of 34 women was obtained through torture. He describes in detail, several torture sessions in which he was burnt with pressing iron and beaten so severely that he bled profusely from his ears.

One of the most interesting disclosures by Quansah is that his interrogators tried to get him to implicate former President Rawlings and his wife, Nana Konadu Agyeman in the serial killings.

Quansah insists that he has never met the couple and that inspite of the gruesome torture, he refused flatly to name the former first couple because if he did, it would be a blot on his conscience for the rest of his life.

Quansah also alleges that at a later date in his interrogation, a police officer (name withheld) told him that if he implicated a very senior member of the Kufuor administration (name also withheld) in the serial killing, he would be left off lightly.

He does not explain why the police officer wanted the senior member of the Kufuor administration implicated in the murders.

The Federal Bureau of Investigations and the Ghana Police are emphatic that Quansah was responsible for the murders, but his denial brings a new dimension to the case.