Michael Agyare, the 32-year-old unemployed man who allegedly murdered his mother and a teenage house help at Oforikrom in the Suhum Municipality of the Eastern Region, has been arrested at Kumawu in the Ashanti Region.
The Suhum District Police Commander, Supt. Yahaya Muchiraru, who confirmed the arrest to DAILY GUIDE, said the suspect was arrested Tuesday morning at his hideout, adding that the police would arraign him before court after thorough investigations.
Madam Doris Tetteh, 59, who worked at the Suhum Government Hospital as a Records Officer and her 18-year-old house help, Mary Addo, who was also a final-year student at the Suhum Presbyterian Senior High School, were allegedly murdered in cold blood on Monday dawn by Agyare.
The suspect, unemployed, purportedly had sexual intercourse with his mother and the maid before using a machete to butcher the mother in the washroom and stripped the maid naked in the bedroom.
Michael Agyare, according to reports, often forced his mother to marry for him.
He reportedly accused the mother of being a witch who had retarded his progress in life.
DAILY GUIDE’s sources maintained that the suspect went to his father in Kumasi and reportedly told him (father) that he had killed a woman and the teenager and so his father should find a place for him to hide.
The father then stormed the Kumawu Police Station to report the son.
He was subsequently transferred to the Suhum Police on Wednesday.
According to Nana Kwadwo Dompreh, the landlord and Suhum Adonten Ankobeahene earlier told DAILY GUIDEthat Michael Agyare had been quarrelling with his mother over his intention to get married.
A staff nurse (name withheld) also told the paper that the suspect’s late mother once told them [nurses] that her son was forcing her to marry the late house maid for him, and she had assured the son that she would do that after her retirement which would be next year.
The landlord, Nana Kojo Dompreh, who called the police to break the door of the deceased, said he was at home at 6:30 am on Monday when some staff of the deceased woman came to inform him that she hadn’t reported to work as usual.
By then her phone was ringing in the rented three-bedroom apartment.
The police later found the deceased in the room but Michael Agyare had reportedly taken to his heels.
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