The Bekwai Circuit Court, presided over by His Honour Isaac Appiatu, has remanded 24-year-old, Sylvester Afriyie alias Stowa, a Fumigator, into prison custody (Kumasi Prisons) for his alleged involvement in the murder of Charlotte Obeng, alias Maabena, 24, with a locally manufactured pistol, without lawful authority.
Sylvester Afriyie has been charged under Section 46 of the Criminal and Other Offences Act 1960 (ACT 29).
The prosecution, led by ASP Lloyd Baidoo Esq., told the court that the complainant, Bismark Donkor, is a miner whilst the accused (Afriyie) is the biological son of the complainant, adding that they both reside in the same house at New Nyamebekyere, a suburb of Obuasi, while the deceased was a sales girl residing at Konka Junction, also a suburb of Obuasi.
The deceased was the accused person’s concubine and have a child together, but the deceased used to blame the accused for not taking proper care of her and the child.
ASP Baidoo explained that about two weeks ago the deceased went to the accused person for money, but refused, which resulted in a quarrel between them, as a result of which the accused person’s mother intervened and warned the deceased to stop coming to the house, because of incessant behaviour to quarrel with the accused, who is unemployed.
On November 19, 2025 the prosecutor disclosed that the complainant and his wife left home in the morning for their respective work, leaving the accused person at home.
On the same day about 5:00pm, the deceased paid unannounced visit to the accused person in his room and he became angry with her for not giving him prior notice, generating into a heated argument between them and leading to the shooting of the deceased by the accused with a locally manufactured pistol.
After the act, the accused picked the remaining live cartridges together with the spent cartridges and the pistol and went into hiding, leaving the deceased to her fate in the room where she lay helplessly and bled to death.
About 7:55pm, the accused person’s mother returned home but did not meet the accused and proceeded to the accused person’s room to check on him only to see the deceased lying dead in a pool of blood.
She became alarmed and quickly informed the complainant on phone and the case was reported to the Police.
Police accompanied the complainant to the scene at H/No. NNE.141 A/D, New Nyamebekyere, where the body of the deceased was found lying supine in a pool of blood on the floor in the accused person’s bedroom, but the accused was nowhere to be found.
The body was carefully inspected and gunshot wounds were seen on the left side of her face and her neck.
The body was conveyed to the Obuasi Government Hospital where she was confirmed dead and proceeded to deposited body at same hospital morgue for preservation pending autopsy.
On November 24, 2025, about 3:40am, Police gathered intelligence that the accused person was spotted in a car around New Nyamebekyere in an attempt to run away from Obuas upon which the Police arrested the accused person at Kunka Police barrier in a private car from Obuasi heading towards Kumasi.
The accused indicated upon interrogation that he hid the exhibit, locally manufactured pistol at Nyamebekyere and subsequently led police to the location at H/No. AO-064-4019, at Nyamebekyere where the locally manufactured pistol stained with blood, a red small paper box containing 15 rounds of live cartridges with inscription ‘Game Load’ were retrieved from a room belonging to one Adwua.
Inspection of the pistol revealed one spent cartridge stocked in the chamber, but the accused refused to disclose where he kept the spent cartridges.
The accused person is to reappear before the court on December 10, 2025.
From Oswald P. Freiku, Bekwai
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