Police asked for tools to retrieve human elements from the home of T'adi's kidnapper – Witnesses

General News of Saturday, August 3, 2019

Source: 3news.com

2019-08-03

It is emerging that the police team that conducted a special salvage operation suspected of being the abducted Takordi girls was poorly prepared for the homicide investigation.

Members of the police headquarters in Accra joined their Takoradi counterparts on Friday night in an unfinished building in Kansaworodo, Takoradi where the main suspect of the abduction was living before his arrest last year.

The operation led by the team discovered and recovered "human remains" in a septic tank located behind the building. The police announced that the remains would be subjected to a forensic examination to determine their identity.

Residents who live around the "crime scene" and who witnessed Friday's operation told 3news.com how the detectives, who would belong to the police's CID homicide unit, would not have been properly prepared.

According to them, the police would have arrived at the scene of the crime for the recovery operation without even the tools and basic equipment necessary for the investigation of homicide.

A resident who lives in front of the unfinished building where the body parts were recovered revealed to 3news.com that the detectives had been begging for weed control equipment.

The lady who spoke on condition of anonymity stated that the detectives had come to her home to ask for knives, shovel and pickaxe, which they had used to clean the septic tank, which was covered with bad herbs.

After a garbage truck from the prison administration sucked the faeces from the septic tank, the homicide detectives again addressed the lady to request a wire mesh for sift the substance from the septic tank, collected 3news.com.

The witness stated that she could not find a wire mesh for the homicide team, but they eventually got it from another person. However, they could not use this to recover the human remains, said the eyewitness.

Facing the challenge, she said, the team was forced to improvise by attaching a nail to a bamboo to serve as a hook for removing human remains from the septic tank.

The human remains, said the eyewitness, were then placed "in two boxes" and placed in one of seven police pickups. They were saved by a mermaid around 19 hours.

After the recovery of human remains, the witness claimed to have seen the police beat the suspect, Samuel Wills, who had been brought to the scene without mercy before being bundled up in one of the vehicles.

How did the exercise begin?

According to sources at 3news.com, some plainclothes detectives began arriving in the unfinished building (alleged crime scene) around 11:00 am on Friday.

They cordoned off the area in the midst of increased security, sources said.

Around 3 pm, another group would also have arrived in vehicles while sirens sounded.

Then, between 5pm and 6pm, they started looking for equipment to clear the area for the recovery exercise, said our sources who witnessed the incident.

Forensic examination

At the same time, a medico-legal examination on human remains is planned, the police said.

Before the test, many residents who attended the Friday evening operation in Kansaworodo believe that the remains are those of the three girls kidnapped.

"The human remains found would be sent to the Ghana Police Service's Forensic Science Laboratory for further badysis and investigation," police said in a statement following speculation, according to speculation.