Man confesses to killing 13-year-old JHS boy in Kumasi
The 23-year old key suspect arrested last Friday for allegedly murdering a 13 –year old Junior High Student at Abuakwa has confessed to the police in Kumasi for being the one who killed Isaac Opoku two weeks ago.
According to the Ashanti Regional Police Commander, DCOP Augustine Gyening, the suspect Abraham Akwasi Agyei who was arrested at the IPT Junction at Asuoyeboah in Kumasi told the police that he killed the boy alone, so the police should release all those arrested earlier in connection with the murder case.
Mr Gyenning said when the 23 –year old unemployed man was arrested, he also confessed to the Police that Pastor Johnson Opoku who died almost a month ago owed him GHC350, and when he confronted Mrs Felicia Opoku, the wife of the deceased Pastor to pay the money, the wife refused, hence his action.
Briefing the media about the arrest of the key suspect during a media encounter in Kumasi, DCOP Gyenning said already the police had retrieved the blood stained machete used for the alleged murder of the JHS boy.
He said the police had already sent the machete to the forensic laboratory for testing to authenticate the truth or otherwise that that particular machete was used for the killing of the boy.
DCOP Gyening said notwithstanding the confession of the key suspect, they were still conducting intensive investigations to find out if the suspect acted alone or did so in connivance with those arrested two weeks ago.
Barely 24-hours after Master Isaac Opoku was murdered at Abuakwa police arrested two suspects – Pastor James Akwasi Appau, 42 and his 64-year old uncle, both relatives to the deceased Pastor-Johnson Opoku
Also arrested were Kwadwo Kru, 52 and Daniel Appiah 60. The two were arrested at Kintampo in the Brong Ahafo region where they had sought refuge.
On Monday March 11, 2013, an unknown assailant who was in mask and brandishing a sharp machete almost severed the head of young Isaac Opoku, a junior high school pupil when he was sleeping with his mother and three other family members.
The assailant after murdering young Opoku turned the machete on Mrs Felicity Opoku and his daughter Rita Opoku and inflicted multiple wounds on their bodies causing them to bleed profusely.
While the body of young Opoku was deposited at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) mortuary for autopsy, Mrs Opoku and her daughter were rushed to the Accident and Emergency Unit of the KATH where they were provided with emergency medical care to revive them.
The barbaric killing of young Opoku barely two weeks after the death of his father generated public outcry and in response a crack team of police investigators from Accra joined the local police at Abuakwa to investigate the heinous crime.
It was the collaboration of the local police and their counterparts that led to the arrest of the five suspects who are in Prison custody, helping the police in their investigations.
Story by George Ernest Asare
