Human body parts found in footballer’s fridge …Angry IGP storms Sunyani

Richard Appiah, a 28-year-old architect and a popular footballer at Alaska near Abesim in the Bono Region has been arrested after two human heads and other human body parts were found being kept in a refrigerator at his home at about 11PM on Friday, 20 August 2021.

Three dead bodies were also found in his rented two bedroom house .

Two of the murdered persons have been identified as 12-year-old Louis Agyemang Junior and Stephen Sarpong, aged 15. The third person is yet to be identified.

Their bodies have been deposited at the morgue for preservation and autopsy while the murder suspect is under police lock and key helping in investigations into the bizarre findings.

The Acting Inspector-General of Police, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare has moved from Accra to Abesim, in the Bono Region, following the alleged murder of the three persons and the sighting of their bodies.

On Sunday morning, Dr. Dampare visited the families of the victims following the traumatic discovery, and also paid a courtesy call on the Abesimhene and Dormaa Kyidomhene, Barima Nana Kumi Akyeaw.

He was accompanied by COP Paul Awuni, Director General MTTD, DCOP Habiba Sarpong, Director General, Welfare, DCOP Bediako, Director General, Services and other senior members of the police Administration.

Dr. Dampare has also directed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Headquarters to provide technical support to Bono Regional CID to investigate the murder of three persons to its logical conclusion.

Dr Dampare, in a statement issued by the police, commended his personnel and the locals for working together to arrest the suspect.

According to the statement, on Friday, one Thomas Adjei, 56, reported that at about 5:30 pm on the same day, his stepson, Richard Appiah, came in for his 12-year-old son, Louis Agyemang Junior, who never returned home.

At about 11 PM, Mr Adjei and his four brothers called for the arrest of the suspect.

The police, together with the complainant and the suspect, proceeded to Richard Appiah’s abode and “surprisingly, the police found the deceased [12-year-old boy] lying in a supine position in one of the rooms.”

The Crime Scene Management team, led by the Regional Crime officer, Supt. Kennedy Adusei and the Sunyani District Commander, DSP Francis Humado, found a second body cut into pieces and kept in a double-door fridge in one of the rooms.

“The second deceased was identified to police as Stephen Sarpong, aged 15 years.

“The bodies have since been sent to the Mentukwa private mortuary for preservation and autopsy as the regional and municipal mortuaries are full,” the statement added.

More Revelations

Meanwhile, Yeboah Asuamah, a former Assemblyman of the Nkwabeng Electoral Area in the Sunyani Municipality  has told the Ghana News Agency (GNA), that his deceased son, Stephen Sarpong, is a 15-year-old Junior High School student of the Knight of St John Preparatory School at Alaska, a new settlement where the incident happened.

Mr. Asuamah said the deceased left home on Sunday, August 15, 2021, and never returned until news of the murder broke out.

“I informed the Abesim police station about my missing son and they gave me an extract to do radio announcement which I did. Since then, I have not heard anything again,” he said, explaining because he reported the matter, the police invited him to the scene to identify the bodies.

“I easily identified Sarpong when I saw his head among the human parts kept in the refrigerator in the suspect’s room,” he said.

Mr. Asuamah, however, described the suspect as a family friend who usually picked the deceased out, saying because of their relationship the suspect aided him to buy a parcel of land recently.

The body of Louis, another victim, was discovered after some young men mobilized and went to the house of Appiah’s father at Alaska, a new settlement at Abesim on learning that the victim was seen in the company of Richard Appiah.

Appiah told the group in the house that Louis had left for home and a search for him all night proved futile.

On the insistence of Louis’ mother, the search party return to the suspect’s house and discovered one of the rooms in the house was locked.

Appiah refused to open the door to the room under the pretext that the key was lost, so the group forcibly broke into the room and discovered the body of Louis lying prostrate in a pool of blood.