PHOTO: Taxi driver kills girlfriend on Val’s Day

• Posted on February 23, 2015February 23, 2015
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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A 25-year-old cabbie is in the grips of the Ashaiman Police for allegedly killing his girlfriend on Valentine’s Day.

Benjamin Kofi Aboagye, the suspect, hired the services of some men to murder his girlfriend, Mabel Borley Borketey, 30, a trader and resident of Zenu in the Kpone-Katamanso District.

According to Superintendent William Daah, Ashaiman Divisional Police Crime Officer, the deceased left the home of the suspect at Michel Camp in the Kpone-Katamanso District to rent a room at Zenu after allegations that the suspect defiled her nine-year-old daughter. The suspect was believed to have subjected the innocent girl to severe beatings anytime she refused her step-father’s advances.

After weeks of their separation, Aboagye, the suspect, with two machete-wielding men, on the dawn of Val’s Day, stormed Mabel’s residence at Obaatan, a suburb of Zenu.

The suspects, at large, knocked on Mabel’s door and abducted her when she opened the door.

Superintendent Daah said the three carried Mabel to a nearby bush, where she was murdered.

Residents and neighbours mounted a search for Mabel the next day when she was not returning. Mabel was a native of Nungua.

Superintendent Daah said while the search party was combing for their lost neighbour, Benjamin Aboagye secretly sneaked into the deceased’s room to pick some items and the step-daughter to his residence at Michel Camp, but co-tenants and some neighbours of the deceased grabbed him and handed him to the Ashaiman Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) on suspicion of kidnapping and stealing.

Benjamin took the police on a wild goose chase until at about 4pm February 16 when the police received information that a dead body has been found in a bush close to a dam at Zenu.

Superintendent William Daah said, “Crime scene detective was sent to the location only to discover that it was the corpse of Mabel Borley in a decomposing state.”

The body was conveyed to the Police Hospital morgue for autopsy. Aboagye is still being held in police custody to assist with investigations, the Ashaiman Divisional Crime Officer said.

From Inusa MUSAH, Ashaiman