According to reports, the teenager hit the 70-year-old woman Abena Nketia on the head with a pestle, killing her instantly.
After committing the crime,
according to the report, the boy allegedly single-handedly dragged the lifeless
body of the grandmother into a backyard farm and buried her in a shallow grave.
The Assemblyman for Gbonasua
Electoral Area, Richard Ferkah, confirmed the incident and added that the
hitherto peaceful community was in shock over the incident.
Information gathered indicates
that the 15-year-old boy had come to visit the grandmother and seeing a sum of
money to be used to buy a tricycle (pragya) by his grandma, incessantly
demanded money from the old lady, but when she refused to give him, Clifford
hit her with the pestle.
According to the Assemblyman, a
10-year-old girl who resides with the deceased came back from school on that
fateful day, but could not find the grandmother.
The worried granddaughter began
to seek her grandmother’s whereabouts, but the suspect told the young girl that
their grandmother was on a short trip to Jamdade, a nearby farming community.
After some days without seeing
or hearing from Abena Nketia, neighbors began a manhunt for the old lady.
They initially contacted
residents of Gbonasua, since Clifford had told the little girl that their
grandmother was on a short trip to relatives in Jamdade.
After the long search yielded
no results, the search party began to focus more closely on the environs of the
deceased’s residence.
The stench from the decomposed
body finally drew the search party to the exact spot where Clifford had buried
his grandmother.
The body has since been exhumed
by the police awaiting autopsy.
Clifford then confessed to
eyewitnesses that he murdered his grandmother.
Clifford is in police custody
assisting in the investigation.
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