The Akatsi South police have recovered some human skeletal parts suspected to be the remains of a 28-year-old motor rider who went missing in April 2023.
Louis Agbogli reportedly went missing after he picked up a female pillion rider on Friday, April 21 from Akatsi to the Kpetoe area in the Volta Region.
According to the Akatsi South Municipal Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Isaac Baah, their preliminary investigations revealed that the suspect, Regina Dagba, an 18-year-old girl from Asafotsi-Dagbakope on April 20, sought the service of Agboli to pick her up to Adetsewui to meet her boyfriend.
He said the deceased after realising the suspect’s financial status gave her Ghc 3.00 to sort out her transportation fare.
She then took the deceased’s contact and called him the next day to thank him for his assistance.
The suspect asked him again to transport her to Kpetoe, which he obliged, even though his colleague riders advised him against it.
“Upon reaching Kpetoe, the suspect appealed to the deceased to take her to a village called Nyatsive, where the deceased had since not returned, causing fear and panic among his relations and friends,” Chief Superintendent Baah said.
He said the police, together with the suspect lured her 20-year-old boyfriend from his hideout at Nyatsive in the Republic of Togo and arrested him on Monday, May 15.
They both admitted to having murdered the victim during interrogation.
Chief Superintendent Baah said after a court order was obtained, the police and their Togolese counterparts were led by the second suspect to a site at Nyatsive, near Togo, where they found the body which had “decomposed, leaving behind only the bones and skull.”
He also led the team to a nearby bush to retrieve the deceased’s motorbike, which was close to where he was allegedly murdered.
Meanwhile, the police added that efforts were underway to forward the bones to Accra for Forensic Laboratory examination, whilst the suspects wait to appear in court on Friday, June 2.