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General News of Sunday, August 4, 2019
Source: yen.com.gh
2019-08-04
The three missing girls from Takoradi
The discovery of parts of the human body suspected of being those of the three missing Takoradi girls has been on the front page of newspapers since the announcement of the news on Friday, August 2, 2019.
The observation and exhumation of these bodies follow months of waiting for the families of girls and Ghanaians to return safely.
Since the news was announced Friday night, there have been many reports and varied angles about it, which makes it difficult to follow.
YEN.com.gh has compiled a list of facts made public since the discovery of the bodies. This should make it easier to understand.
1. The players in the operation:
According to the official statement of the police, the operation to recover the human parts was undertaken by the National Department of Criminal Investigations (CID) and the command of the police of the Western Region.
2. Where the bodies have been recovered:
As previously reported by YEN.com.gh, the human parts were recovered in a septic tank located in a house in Kansawurodo, a suburb of Takoradi.
This house was in the same place as the main suspect of the abduction, Samuel Udeotuk-Wills, lived before his arrest. He reportedly took the police to the scene.
3. How the bodies were found:
Police officers were dispatched from Accra following a tip and with the help of the West Regional Police Commander, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), Mr. Vincent Redeemer, and other people. They arrived home around 5 pm and cordoned off the area.
After entering the suspect's room, sniffer dogs brought in for the operation drove the team to the septic tank and they began emptying the full tank at 5:30 pm.
After almost three hours, the police found skeletons suspected to be those of the missing girls, who were packed in cartons and taken away from the scene.
4. What happens to the remains:
According to the police, the remains were reportedly transported to Accra and subjected to DNA testing at the police forensic laboratory.
This will help determine which of the parties are going together and even to establish whether the skeletons were those of the three missing girls.
5. Suspect reaction
According to a report from YEN.com.gh discovered on Graphic.com.gh, the suspect, Samuel Udeotuk-Wills, who had led the team on site, had to closely monitor the full recovery process.
But he denied any knowledge, he also denied any involvement in the killing of girls, the report said.
6. Reaction of the families of girls:
YEN.com.gh thinks that shortly after news circulated in the city that police had recovered bodies from the septic tank, the families went to the scene but found the absence of the body. team that had gone to Accra.
Some cars are said to have been picked up to come to Accra. In an official reaction, the families requested a forensic audit independent of the identity of the found human pieces.
According to the family spokesman, Mr. Michael Hayford Acquah, "until forensic investigations and DNA establish that the body parts found are his, all we know, c & # 39; is that our loved ones are still alive. "
7. The kidnappings themselves:
As it was widely reported, the three girls were all kidnapped around the metropolis of Takoradi in the space of four months.
Priscilla Blessing Bentum, a 21-year-old third year student at the University of Education, Winneba, was kidnapped in Kansawurodo on August 17, 2018. She was followed almost four months later by
Ruth Love Quayson, 18, a high school graduate, was abducted in Butumegyabu Junction on December 4, 2018.
A little over two weeks after the second kidnapping, Priscilla Mantebea Koranchie, 15, a student at Sekondi College (SEKCO), was also kidnapped near Nkroful Junction in Takoradi on December 21, 2018.
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