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Man arrested for attempting to slash the throat of a woman

Information available to Pulse.com.gh has it that a man believed to be in his late 20s has been arrested by the Axim Police in the Western Region for attempting to slash the throat of a middle-aged woman born to Ghanaian and Liberian parents.

 

The incident took place near a popular recording studio at Ayisakro near Axim at midnight last Sunday.

The victim, Angel Sampson, according to sources, struggled with the suspect as he attempted to slash her throat with a sharp knife and the victim sustained some cuts around her oesophagus in the process.

The victim who was bleeding profusely as a result of the incident was rushed to the Axim hospital where she was admitted for three days, treated and discharged.

The suspect, Francis Odasenyi, who used to be a fetish priest in the Ayisakro community, is currently in the grips of the police while investigations into the case continued.

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Narrating how the unfortunate incident occurred in an interview, Sampson K. Obeng, a radio presenter at Ankobra FM, based at Ayisakro noted that at about 11pm last Monday he had a call from someone and the person informed him about the incident around a popular recording studio in the area.

“When I rushed to the area, I saw the victim with blood all over her and so with the help of some other residents I quickly sent her to the Axim police station to report the case.

“The victim was given a form to go to the hospital for treatment. So I sent the victim to the Axim hospital. The suspect had then gone into hiding”, he added.

Obeng pointed out that later the suspect was arrested from his hide out and is currently in police cells assisting in the investigations.

Angel Sampson, who was granting interview after she had been treated and discharged narrated that about a month ago; she was travelling with her sister from Elubo in the Western region to Osu in Accra where she resides.

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She indicated that she boarded a vehicle at Elubo to Ayisakro where she believed she could get a vehicle to Takoradi faster and later board an Accra-bound bus.

While waiting at Ayisakro to board a vehicle to Takoradi at about 6pm, the suspect, Francis Odasanyi from nowhere approached the victim and her sister and managed to get them a bus going to Takoradi.

But before Angel and her sister boarded the vehicle the suspect asked the victim to give him her telephone number. The victim initially declined to do that but later had to give the suspect her number after persuasions from her sister.

After a month has passed by,  she received a call from Odasanyi but could not identify him at the initial stages.

“When I later made him out, I told him that I was seriously taking care of my sick relative. The suspect asked me to come for some money to take care of the medical bills. I told the suspect to send the money through mobile money but he disagreed”.

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The suspect insisted that the victim travel to Ayisakro for the money.

“So when I got to Takoradi, the suspect came to pick me to his place at Ayisakro near a recording studio and decided to have sex with me, but I told him that, that was not what we negotiated. The suspect went for a knife and decided to kill me”, the suspect was reported to have said.

"I shouted for help as I struggled with the suspect and when he  realized that people were rushing in, he took to his heels.

The Axim police Commander, Supt Edward Annung Konyel confirmed the incident and indicated that the suspect had been remanded in police custody to assist in investigations.

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