{"id":377098,"date":"2017-11-24T08:09:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T08:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=377098"},"modified":"2017-11-24T11:28:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T11:28:27","slug":"man-22-gets-death-sentence-for-killing-2-americans-in-akwamufie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/man-22-gets-death-sentence-for-killing-2-americans-in-akwamufie\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 22, gets death sentence for killing 2 Americans in Akwamufie"},"content":{"rendered":"
A\u00a0 High Court in Accra has sentenced a 22-year-old man, Yaw Anokye, to death by hanging for the gruesome murder of two African-American women at\u00a0Akwamufie in the Asuogyaman District of the Eastern Region, in May 2015.<\/p>\n
Yaw Anokye was found guilty by a seven-member jury after he had confessed to killing the two women in their 70s.<\/p>\n
Delivering her judgment, the Judge, Justice Merley Afua Wood, asked God to have mercy on the soul of the accused as he was about to face death.<\/p>\n
The two deceased persons,\u00a0 Mane Lena, 75, and 69-year-old Diop Nzanga, were kidnapped, murdered and buried in a shallow grave in 2015.<\/p>\n
Police in\u00a0Akosombo found the bodies of the two after they were reported to have gone missing.<\/p>\n
Their bodies were exhumed after Acting President of the Akwamu Traditional Council dispatched over 70 people to complement a police search for the two when it became apparent they had gone missing.<\/p>\n