Dir. Gen of CID, Crime Scene, and Homicide Unit Visit Nkawkaw to Unriddle Death of Policewoman 

The Director-General CID, COP Ken Yeboah on Sunday led a team of crime scene managers and a Homicide Unit to unravel the death of the Policewoman found dead in a hotel in Nkawkaw in the Eastern Region.

Preliminary investigation by the team has established that Lance Corporal Sarah Adjei who was with Nkawkaw Division left home leaving his boyfriend Timothy Dampare under lock and key in her apartment Saturday, August 7, 2021.

She drove a Hyundai Elantra with registration number GE 331-19 belonging to Timothy Dampare to Misiho Hotel near Nkawkaw at about 12:00pm to rest for a short time.

However, the 30-year-old manager of the Hotel, Richard Nimoh, decided to check the deceased when he noticed there was no activity in the room but found the policewoman dead.

According to him, he immediately reported the incident to the Nkawkaw police for the next action.

The Police team visited the crime scene after which the team also visited her apartment where it was noticed that the said boyfriend was locked inside the room.

Police investigators retrieved two handwritten death notes one at the scene of the crime and the balcony of the house which read the same that “Dear Mr Timothy Dampare, I told you that I owed people money and you decided to help me and you have been with me in my house for one week now and you have refused to help me, so if anything happens you have caused it, Mr Timothy Dampare.”

Police called the deceased’s mobile phone number which an unknown man picked the call and said he seized the Hyundai Elantra and the mobile phone of the policewoman because she owes him Ghc28,000 which she has refused to pay.

Meanwhile, the Manager of the Hotel and Timothy Dampare, 50, a lotto agent have been arrested to assist the investigation.

Also, efforts were underway to arrest the man who seized the car from the Policewoman.

William Ofori Akwaboa, Eastern Regional Correspondent