The Tema District Court on Monday, this week, adjourned the case in which four persons are standing trial for over the murder of Mrs. Josephine Asante.
They accused persons are, Richard Kwabena Kwakye aka Kwabena Boateng, former driver at the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA), Dominic Owusu, driver, Christian Agyei, houseboy and Frederick Owusu Oppong, driver.
When the case was called, the Prosecution told the court that police are waiting for the advice from the Attorney General’s Office. Mrs. Josephine Asante, then Marketing and Public Affairs Manager at Tema Port of GPHA was on Sunday January 13, 2019, found murdered in her Emefs Hillview Estates home near Afienya in the Ningo Prampram District of the Greater Accra Region.
According to the brief facts as presented by the police, Kwabena Boateng and Frederick Owusu Oppong are cousins. Through Boateng, his cousin was employed as the personal driver of his boss’ wife.
Boateng and Dominic were good friends and the former introduced the later to his boss and both became acquaintances thereafter. Christian Agyei was houseboy for the deceased.
On Saturday January 12, 2019, Mrs. Asante attended an end of year party organized at the headquarters of GPHA in Tema. The party was also attended by Kwabena Boateng and his boss, but they left the party to the Emefs Hillview Estates at about 11.00pm to visit a friend to the boss.
While Kwabena Boateng was waiting for his boss in the car at the estate, Dominic Owusu came to speak to his boss briefly and left. Mrs. Asante returned from the party to her house at about 12.30am.
Kwabena Boateng and Dominic Owusu who had laid ambush in the vicinity with the aid of Christian Agyei followed the deceased’s vehicle, entered the apartment, struggled with the deceased in her bathroom and stabbed her to death, according to the police charged sheet.
After the act, they locked her in her bedroom, took the key to the deceased’s door and fled leaving the key on the lawn outside the main gate of the house.
On Sunday January 13, 2019, Mrs. Asante was found dead in a pool of blood in her room.
Kwabena Boateng and Dominic Owusu later fled to Burkina Faso, after some months, returned to Ghana and went into hiding.
Frederick Owusu Oppong also left his job as the driver without apparent cause and travelled to the Northern Region.
Knowing that Mrs Josephine Asante was no more, Christian Agyei picked an amount of Ghc 430.00 and a wrist watch belonging to her which she brought on the night from the end of year party.Case has since been adjourned to August 21, 2023.
