DRIVER MURDERS WIFE (MIRROR, PAGE 32)

From Nana Konadu Agyeman, Nsawam

A 24-year-old driver, who could not tolerate the cold attitude of his wife towards him and assaulted her to death at Kraboa, a suburb of the Suhum-Kraboa-Coaltar District of the Eastern Region, has found himself in the grips of the law.
The accused person, Kwabena Ayeh, was said to have subjected Comfort Attah, 18, to severe beatings when she refused to talk to him for ignoring her advise against attending a funeral on January 30, this year.
Ayeh, who had been married to the deceased for three years with a two-year-old boy, had informed the wife that he was attending a friend’s funeral at Coaltar but the wife objected on the grounds that she was not on talking terms with the friend.
However, Ayeh was said to have snubbed the deceased and proceeded to the friend’s funeral, only to return to the house the following day.
Incensed by the husband’s disrespect for her wish, the deceased was said to have turned cold towards her husband and this led to him assaulting her when she declined to talk with him.
In her bid to prevent further assault on her, the deceased was reported to have fled to her mother’s house, also at Kraboa, to inform her about Ayeh’s conduct.
While seeking refuge at the mother’s house, the angry husband rushed to the in-laws’ house, where he subjected the deceased to further beatings in front of the mother-in-law.
The deceased was said to have complained of severe abdominal pains that fateful day and was rushed to the Coaltar Clinic, where she was treated and discharged.
However, her condition worsened the following day and was again taken to the same clinic where she was treated but was referred to the Nsawam Government Hospital.
She however died shortly on arrival.
The Nsawam Municipal Police Commander, Superintendent Daniel Nyampong, who confirmed the incident, said the accused person was arrested when the family of the deceased reported her death to the police on February 11, this year.
He said the accused person was arraigned before a Magistrate Court at Nsawam and was remanded in custody to reappear on March 20, 2009.
Meanwhile, the body of the deceased had been deposited at the Police Hospital, pending an autopsy.