Woman, 60, murdered in cold blood

Story: Albert K. Salia
A 69-year-old woman was murdered in cold blood at her residence at McCarthy Hill on Monday in circumstances which the police suspect involved foul play.
Mrs Rosemary Owusu-Ansah, who retired to bed at about 10.00 p.m. after her children had organised a birthday party for her, was found lying supine, with stretched hands, a bruised face and some blood on the bed.
Apart from her purse which was taken from the room, nothing else was touched.
Mrs Owusu-Ansah was the Proprietor of Out of Gold Restaurant at Odorkor, a suburb of Accra.
The late Mrs Owusu-Ansah was due to give evidence at the Cocoa Affairs Court 17 tomorrow in a legal tussle over encroachment on her husband’s property at Odorkor.
She was also said to be engaged in another dispute with her brother who had rented a building their late father bequeathed to them to a bank at Atimpoku in the Eastern Region, without the consent of other members of the family.
When the alleged murder was detected, the door to the room, which could only be opened from inside, was locked and the house boy, Rahmah, had to enter through the glass window to open it to let in Mrs Sally Agyemang Jacobs, the deceased’s daughter, to find the lifeless body.
A security guard, Kofi Isaac, of InterCom Security, was arrested on Monday evening when he reported for work and handed over to the Odorkor Police to assist in investigations.
Isaac is considered a key witness in the case because of the circumstances under which he left the house after close of work.
Mrs Jacobs told the Daily Graphic that she saw her mother off to her room when they returned from the birthday party and made sure her door was locked.
She said when she came out of her room at about 8.00 a.m. the next day and found her mum’s driver waiting outside, she asked him why he was still in the house because her mother usually left for work early.
Mrs Jacobs said when the driver informed her that there was no response from Mrs Owusu-Ansah’s room, she went to knock on the door but there was truly no response.
The Odorkor District Police Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Ernest Mayeb, said the police were investigating the matter.