A 48-year-old man was on Friday 12 November 2021 arrested in Sunyani in the Bono Region for allegedly killing his grandparents.
Frederickson Ericson, believed to be mentally unstable as a result of alcohol abuse and neglect by his wife, allegedly butchered his grandparents – JK Amoah, 90, and Nana Amoah, 85 – in Sunyani New-Town Extension with a mattock.
Confirming the news to Asaase Radio, ASP Augustine Kingsley Oppong, a local police spokesperson, said the incident happened at dawn when the grandparents were fast asleep.
“Early this morning, the police had an information that one Fredrickson Ericson, aged 48, had killed his grandfather and grandmother. So, the police proceeded immediately to the scene at Sunyani Newtown and saw the two bodies.
“Preliminary investigations indicate that Ericson is a mentally deranged person so we’re basing upon that to establish the truth or otherwise of the case to know actually what happened,” ASP Oppong told Asaase Radio’s Bono Regional correspondent Daniel Donkor.
The bodies have been deposited at the morgue for autopsy.
Listen to ASP Augustine Kingsley Oppong in the attached audio below:
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