Hunter before court on provisional charge of murder

Elmina (C/R), Aug. 6, GNA - A 47-year old hunter at Boboabom, near Komenda, from whose gun a stray bullet allegedly killed a fellow hunter, was on Tuesday, put before a Magistrate's Court at Elmina on a provisional charge of murder.

Michael Botwe, whose plea was not taken, was remanded in custody to reappear on Tuesday, August 19.

The Court heard that last Saturday at about 1600 hours Botwe went into the forest reserve at Ebukrom, also near Komenda, to hunt and was later joined by the deceased Isaac Kofi Agbo, also a hunter and his friend.

The two friends reportedly had meals together before going their separate ways to hunt at about 2100 hours, the Prosecution said. The court heard that two hours later, Botwe claimed he saw an antelope and shot at it but missed, and when he went looking for the game, he came across his colleague lying dead in a pool of blood, apparently hit by a stray bullet from the shot.