From Nana Konadu Agyeman,
Koforidua
A Koforidua High Court has sentenced a 29-year-old farmer, Kwabena Odoi, to death by hanging for murdering his father.
The convict was sentenced after a seven-member jury unanimously found him guilty of the murder of his 55-year-old father, Kwaku Esewo, also a farmer.
Odoi, who pleaded not guilty to the murder charge, showed a pensive mood after the court had slapped the sentence on him.
Presenting the facts of the case to the court, presided over by Mr Justice Gbie S. Suurbaareh, a State Attorney, Ms Priscilla Dikro, said on December 19, 2004, the deceased engaged the convict to harvest some peas on his farm.
Ms Dikro said after the harvest, Odoi demanded payment from the deceased, who refused to give him the amount, resulting in a quarrel between the two during which the convict picked a pestle and hit his father several times on the head, jaws, ribs and other parts of the body until he fell unconscious.
The incident occurred on December 19, 2004 at Nsukwao-Aboabo, a village near Nkurakan in the Yilo Krobo District in the Eastern Region.
After committing the act Odoi fled while his father was rushed to the Eastern Regional Hospital, where he died the following day.
Odoi was arrested by some youth in the village the following day.
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