British-Jamaican fugitive grabbed *Thanks to collaboration between Ghana, British police

Page 3: Daily Graphic, August 3, 2009.
Story: Albert K. Salia
A COLLABORATION between the British police and their Ghanaian counterparts has led to the arrest of a British-Jamaican who escaped from the grips of the law in London.
Tyron Darren Woodhouse, 37, alias Kofi Watts Darws, was arrested last Thursday when his flight touched down at the Kotoka International Airport.
The police in Ghana are currently seeking Tyron’s Ghanaian accomplices who managed to secure him a Ghanaian birth certificate and a passport to facilitate his trip to Ghana.
His birth certificate was issued on April 2, 2008, while his Ghanaian passport, number H2249542, was issued in Accra on June 18, 2008.
Briefing newsmen in Accra at the weekend, the Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, DCOP Frank Adu-Poku, said the British police informed the Police Administration in December 2007 that Tyron had been involved in a series of murders in London.
He said the British police informed their Ghanaian counterparts that Tyron was facing trial and that they had information that he was liaising with some Ghanaians to secure a Ghanaian passport to travel to Ghana as a Ghanaian.
DCOP Adu-Poku said to facilitate the deal, Tyron changed his name to Kofi Watts Darws on the passport application form, with Accra Academy as the last school he attended.
He said the police in Ghana then mounted surveillance at the Kotoka International Airport, since Tyron could arrive anytime soon.
He said the police had information that Tyron left London on July 30, 2009 and was heading to Ghana.
DCOP Adu-Poku said a team of policemen was detailed to the airport to effect the suspect’s arrest.