Police at Bekwai in Ashanti Region say they have arrested a prime suspect in the murder of a journalist with Dess FM four months ago.
Philip Akumaning, also known as Atta Panin, was picked up at Juansa, near Konongo, upon a tip-off over the weekend.
Portia Amma Agyeiwaa was found in a pool of blood in front of her room at the Bekwai suburb of Nyameduasi in April.
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She was pronounced dead on arrival at the Bekwai Government Hospital.
Preliminary police investigations revealed Portia was stabbed in the chest, thigh and left arm with a sharp object believed to be a knife.
A Bekwai Magistrate Court issued a warrant for the arrest of the suspect, a carpenter after police leads pointed to him in April.
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Philip is said to have gone into hiding in Accra but luck eluded him when he was arrested at Juaso in the Ashanti Region where he had gone for a funeral.
On Sunday, he led police to his Assin-Fosu base in the Central Region where the knife he allegedly used to commit the homicide was retrieved.