{"id":81789,"date":"2015-01-13T07:18:40","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T07:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=81789"},"modified":"2015-01-13T07:43:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T07:43:08","slug":"self-defense-suspected-murderer-10-year-old-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=81789","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It was self-defense&#8217; \u2013 Suspected murderer of 10-year-old boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prime suspect in the murder of a 10-year-old boy in Sissala East in the Upper West Region has been arrested by the Police.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;5tcC6Bjqv2oqRaWSylUga5wqaDNhIREm&#8221;]The suspect, Abudulai, has been on the run after Police found the decomposed body of the little boy.<\/p>\n<p>He is believed to be the one who slashed the boy into pieces with a cutlass.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/01\/11\/5-arrested-murdering-10-year-old-boy\/\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>five suspects who were early on arrested<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/a>have however been granted bail by the Police following the arrest of Abudulai.<\/p>\n<p>The Sisala East district Police Commander, ASP Benjamin Sumani in an interview with\u00a0<strong>Citi News<\/strong>\u00a0narrated that the Police had the information that the actual perpetrator who murdered the small boy had been found near the Navrongo-Bolga road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the statements given to us tell us that it is the Abdullai guys who has been arrested was the person who committed the offence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to ASP Sumani, the suspect upon arrest confessed to the crime but insisted it was self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has been arrested and I asked him what actually happened and he said the small boy was rather trying to slash him with a cutlass but he was fast enough to collect the cutlass from him and used the cutlass by cutting him into pieces,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/01\/09\/10-year-old-murdered-head-and-other-parts-missing\/\"><strong>body of the 10-year-old boy<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, Kobey Bagbeseh who hails from Banu in the Sissala East District was found in the bush with the head, the left arm and the two feet missing.<\/p>\n<p>He is believed to have been murdered when he and his 8-year-old brother, Ben Bagbeseh accompanied their father, Abugu Bagbeseh, to the farm last Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The five people who were arrested earlier in connection with the murder have been granted bail.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @osamidan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prime suspect in the murder of a 10-year-old boy in Sissala East in the Upper West Region has been arrested by the Police. 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