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Crime & Punishment of Sunday, June 2, 2019
Source: 3news.com
2019-06-02
The police have not yet identified the body that was burned and that was not recognized
Police in the eastern region arrested a 20-year-old man to help investigate the killing of two people who were pursuing suspected goat thieves in Huhunya, Yilo Krobo Municipality.
Thomas Ayitey, a porter, was arrested Saturday in a bush in Agogo Junction by a mob that suspected him of being one of the so-called goat thieves.
These three thieves, numbering about three, allegedly shot and killed two residents who allegedly chased them on a motorcycle.
The police identified them as Kwame Tetefio, 31, a pearl maker, and Aaron Padi Atema, 45, a worker at the GRA fence.
According to the police, two of the thieves escaped into a bush, but one of them was arrested, tied in the trunk of the wagon used for the flight operation and burned alive by a Angry crowd in Huhunya.
The police have not yet identified the body that was burned.
Hours after the incident, a crowd arrested Ayitey in a bush and took him to Huhunya, claiming that he was one of two escaped robbers.
The angry mob of the city threatened to lynch Ayitey, but he was rescued and detained at the Huhunya Gate.
The police entered quickly and saved Ayitey at the police station.
"During his interrogation, he denied knowing about the incident and said that he and two others had gone to the bush of Otokporlu to transport lumber" , said a police reporter.
But the police said he stopped to help in the investigation of the case as a murder.
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