The Ashanti Regional Police Command have arrested a
41-year-old woman after someone she allegedly contracted to murder her
business partner, tipped off the police.
The suspect, Joyce Antwi, a trader and resident of Buokrom
Estatae, Kumasi, was arrested by police on Saturday, May 27. According
to the police, the suspect contacted the purported assassin to kill her
business partner who she owed GHc 99,000.
Joyce Antwi received the said amount in October 2015 for
the expansion of her business, and promised to pay back her debt by
April 2017. The victim in April 27, approached the suspect and gave her a June 2017 deadline to settle the amount.
Ashanti Regional Police Commander, DCOP Ken Yeboah, who
paraded the suspect before newsmen, said Joyce Antwi informed the
supposed assassin on the 23rd of May, to assassinate her business
partner, offering an amount of GH¢5,000, of which she made an initial
payment of GH¢2,500.
“Joyce Antwi then asked the complainant to execute the job
in the afternoon since the victim’s husband and children will be out of
the house.”
“On Friday, 26th of May, the suspect, Joyce Antwi, took the
complainant to the house of the victim at Buokrom Estate to show him
the house,” DCOP Ken Yeboah stated.
But the purported contract killer who meant well, alerted the police about the intentions of the suspect.
"On the 27th of May went to the victim’s residence and
asked her to call the suspect to come to her residence which she
obliged, and she was arrested,” DCOP Ken Yeboah added.
Joyce Antwi subsequently confessed to the crime in her
caution statement during interrogation, and is in police custody,
assisting with further investigations.
Source: Citi 973 FM Ghana
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