A senior lecturer at the University of Ghana Faculty of Law, Prof. Emmanuel Yaw Benneh, has been killed in his East Legon residence.
He was found dead in his home Saturday morning. He is believed to have been murdered on Thursday night.
But police picked up his body from his East Legon home on Saturday.
Prof Benneh had retired from the university but works on contract and lives alone in his mansion at East Legon, not far from American House.
There was no sign of a break in the huge mansion in which the retired lecturer lived alone in East Legon.
When theghanareport.com’s Manasseh Azure Awuni visited the house on Saturday, a sister of the deceased was wailing uncontrollably.
However, one Isaac Botchway, who said he was the late law professor’s houseboy said the last time he spoke to him was on Thursday at about 8 pm.
Mr Botchway said he lived in Accra Central and Mr Benneh normally called him whenever he needed him to run errands for him.
“I called him the next day, but he did not respond. The gardener came to work this morning and when he did not find any sign of him, he knocked at his door but there was no response,” Isaac Botchway told Manasseh.
“The gardener then went to inform his [Prof Benneh’s] sister who does not live far away from the house. They went for a carpenter to force the door open,” he continued.
“When the door was forced open, he was found dead,” he said.
His hands and legs were all tied, and his body was found in a pool of blood between the bedroom and the living room.
There were signs of a struggle in the room prior to his death. Although the crime scene had been cleaned, there were splashes of blood on the floor.
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