Four Men Murder Uncle For Family Property

A Koforidua High Court has sentenced four people to death by hanging, for allegedly killing their uncle, Kwame Dartey, at Ntowkrom, a village near Nsawam, in the Eastern region.

The four are Kofi Bredu Armah, 60, Addy Armah, 40, Lartei Tetteh, 40 and Aryee Armah Bredu, 35.

They were each charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit crime.
The four were unanimously found guilty by a seven member jury.

Prosecuting, a State Attorney, Priscilla Diakro, told the court, presided over by Justice Henry Kwofie, that at about 7pm on October 12, 2003 at about 7 pm, the deceased then residing at Ntowkrom, went to see his cousin off to her house.

On his way back home, he was shot from behind from a near-by bush but was able to run for about 15 metres, fell and died.

The police heard of the incident through the reports by some people in the village and went to the scene where they found the body of the deceased.

Investigations started into and in the process, the police arrested the four who are nephews of the deceased.

Addy confessed to the police that it was upon the advice of Bredu that they killed their uncle, who was the caretaker of their large family land, so that they would have access to it.

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