Police in Akatsi are hunting for a teacher who allegedly butchered his 28-year-old wife for refusing to accept his decision to marry a second wife.
The suspect, Emmanuel Adome, a teacher at Wlutey RC Basic School, is said to have severely butchered his wife, Fortune Dzotefe, a fire service personnel under the National Youth Employment Programme who suffered deep cutlass wounds on her face and arms with some of her fingers mutilated and is currently on-admission at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital receiving treatment.
According to sources the victim had a misunderstanding with the husband over the issue of marrying a second wife and for some time now had been separated with the husband leading him to refuse he victim access to their daughter.
Fortune on Saturday June 18 around 10:00pm reportedly went to her husband’s house to pick her child but Adome prevented her and further requested that she spent the night with him which she refused.
Out of anger, Adome allegedly pulled a cutlass and inflicted wounds on Fortune.Â
The Akatsi South District Police Commander, Superintendent Dennis Fiakpui indicated that the police on the said date had a call that a man had butchered his wife around 10:30pm and subsequently moved to the place.
‘When we arrived, we saw only the woman in a pool of blood and rushed her to the hospital’ he said.
The commander who said the police have started investigating the matter appealed to the general public to assist the police locate the whereabouts of the suspect and get him arrested, Graphic Online reported.
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