THE police in the Northern Region have arrested a father and his son in the Bunkpurugu/Yunyoo District for allegedly beating a 62-year-old woman to death after they had accused her of being a witch.
The two, Sulley Kumong, 60, and Sulley Nuhu, 23, his son, were said to have tortured their victim, Kombien Tajong, to force her to confess to being a witch and that might have led to her death.
The incident, according to the Northern Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Chief Inspector Ebenezer Tetteh, happened on July 9, 2010.
He said Kumong had accused a woman (name withheld) in a village called Jilik of bewitching his son. He said when the woman was approached, she confirmed that the son had been bewitched but denied responsibility for that act.
“Instead, she pointed an accusing finger at another woman, the deceased,” the PRO stated, and added that when the two questioned the second woman, she also denied knowledge of the matter but she was pressurised by her accusers.
“In the process of forcing her to accept her guilt, they beat her up and, in the process, she collapsed,” the PRO said.
He said in trying to ascertain whether she was still alive or not, both the father and his son used fire to torch the soles of her feet and “it was then that they realised she had passed away”.
Chief Inspector Tetteh said the body of the deceased had since been deposited at the Baptist Medical Centre for autopsy, pending further investigations.
He said the two were in custody helping the police in their investigations.
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