A 47-year-old Burkinabe, Boigouna Aloys, who murdered his German wife and their daughter in Kokrobite, Accra, will spend the rest of his life in prison.
This is because the High Court in Accra found him guilty of murder and imposed life imprisonment sentence on him.
A seven-member jury returned a unanimous guilty verdict on the charge of murder against Aloys, yesterday.
The convict was said to have used a hammer to hit the head of Claudia Weizmann 53, (late wife).
Prosecuting, Mrs Yvonne Yaachie-Adomako, an Assistant State Attorney, told the court presided over by Justice Mary Maame Ekue Yanzuh that the convict strangled his 14-year-old daughter so that she does not report the case to the police.
The court heard that Aloys, 43, buried the two victims at the extreme end of their land at Kokrobitey in Accra to avoid any suspicion.
However, neighbours, who noticed the sudden disappearance of the German woman and her daughter and a foul stench emanating from the compound of the suspect, reported the matter to the police and Aloys was arrested.
Yaachie-Adomako told the court that police investigators discovered that the stench was that of a human being and they suspected the Burkinabe of allegedly killing his wife and daughter.
“Suspect has since confessed to the crime and added that he used a hammer to hit the wife in the head after a misunderstanding thus killing her instantly and for fear that his daughter will report
the matter to the police, he strangled the 14-year-old girl to death after which he buried the two on their compound,” according to the prosecution.
She said the Burkinabe, and the late Weizmann got married in Germany and the two relocated to Ghana with their daughter in January, 2020.
The court heard that the family had been living in their three-bedroom apartment on their land at Kokrobite, Accra.
BY MALIK SULLEMANA