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Crime & Punishment of Friday, 26 February 2016

Source: GNA

Driver lynched for stabbing girlfriend to death

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A 45 year-old driver has been lynched by a mob at Nkwakaw –Mamaso after stabbing his girlfriend to death.

The bodies of the deceased couple have been deposited at the Nkawkaw Holy Family Hospital for autopsy.

Briefing the Ghana News Agency (GNA), the Nkawkaw Municipal Police Commander, Superintendent Jeff Darko said, at about 1040 hours, on Wednesday, the Police had information that, the taxi driver, Kofi Asirifi had inflicted several knife wounds on her girlfriend, Mabel Pomaa, a 25 year old trader at Mamaso, a suburb of Nkawkaw in the Kwahu West Municipality.

He said when the Police got to the scene, they saw Asirifi lying down unconscious whiles, Pomaa had been rushed to the Holy Family Hospital for treatment.

Supt. Darko said the Police also rushed Asirifi to the same hospital for treatment but he died later, whiles Pomaa died at the surgical table.