Police has announced, they have been directed by the Attorney General to charge Richard Appiah, with murder and to also send him to the Psychiatric Hospital for a thorough mental review.
This follows the arrest of the accused, 28-year-old Richard Appiah, for allegedly killing two children. The suspect, is alleged to have gruesomely murdered two boys, 15-year-old JHS 2 student, Stephen Sarpong and his 12-year-old stepbrother, Louis, and another yet to be identified body.
He kept some of their body parts in a fridge in his house in Abesim, Bono Region. The Attorney General has asked police to charge Richard Appiah
with murder.
A duplicate docket on the accused was sent to the Office of the Attorney General for advice. “We, therefore, pray for an order of the court to enable us to send him to the Psychiatric Hospital.
The court presided over by Ama Adomako Kwakye ordered the Police to send Appiah to the Psychiatric Hospital and adjourned the matter to 22 November.
Appiah, a footballer, is standing trial for allegedly killing Louis Agyeman and Stephen Sarpong in cold blood.
His plea has been preserved by the court. According to the police, some body parts and intestines were recovered from a farm during the investigation.
The minors have since been buried. However, according to police sources, the suspect revealed his motivation for killing humans.
He is said to have told investigators that he began killing dogs before moving on to killing humans.
According to the source, he told his interrogators that something compelled him to kill a black dog, which he did, but only ate the dog’s head.
The source said, “there is evidence to show that he really killed a black dog first before he turned to the people he killed.”
“That ‘something’ he is claiming influenced him to commit the heinous crimes, we do not know. The police do not dwell on spirits
to do an investigation,” the Police source said.
Source: The Independent Ghana