Charlotte Morton, the pregnant wife of Awal Osumanu, one of the victims of the Awoshie shooting incident Wednesday has denied media speculations that she threatened her ‘rival’, Irene Emefa Agbei four days before the latter was shot dead.

She also discounted reports that she vacated her matrimonial home and went to live with her parents in protest at her late husband's amorous affair with Irene.

Speaking exclusively to Daily Guide at the Awoshie Police Station after she had been interrogated by the police, Ms. Morton appealed to the Police to intensify the search for her husband's killers.
She said she left for her mother's residence at Korle Wuokon in Accra where she could receive better care, in her condition.

According to her, the husband was with her on Tuesday night at Korle Wuokon, where he had his supper and took a shower, Ms. Morton said: "I met my husband at her place (Emefa's). I was speaking to my husband when she started insulting me but I didn't mind her."

Ms. Morton alleged that Emefa had boasted about the fact that her husband had traveled abroad.

She said: "Read my lips, I'm not leaving your husband today or tomorrow."

"There was an exchange of words and my husband drove me away, telling Emefa that he was coming back to her later," the widow said.
She therefore denied ever threatening Emefa in any form and that all along the deceased woman had always been the aggressor.

Ms. Morton, who was pregnant, said she had been living with her husband for the past 10 years.

"The first five years was not formalized but I had a son for him and he engaged me five years ago."

Ms. Morton, who looked tired, said she had been kept at the police station since morning before being interrogated at 1.30 pm, and that she had not eaten any food even though she was pregnant.

She was accompanied to the police station by her father, Mr. Faisal Morton; her mother, Esther Buckman Morton; her auntie, Madam Fawzie Morton; her brother in-law, Abbass Osumanu and uncle in-law, Mr. Raymond Ampadu Asiamah.

Mr. Abass Osumanu told Daily Guide that the family was aware of his brother's love affair with Emefa but no family member gave her 'recognition'; neither did anybody expect that the affair could lead to the cold blooded murder of the two love birds.

Mr. Asiamah also told Daily Guide that he had come to take a police report to enable the family take the body of the deceased man from the morgue for burial, according to Islamic tradition.

Irene Emefa, 28, was said to have been shot in the lower part of her left shoulder, above her breast, the back and on the left hand, whereas Awal Osumanu, 32, took shots on the back and chest. The two were found dead on the morning of Wednesday, November 6, 2007.

They were said to have been shot from behind by unidentified persons as they were running away from their assailant(s).

Earlier, Daily Guide reports said the Regional Crime Officer, Chief Superintendent Boi Bi Boi remarked that it appeared the two were fleeing from as¬sailant(s), since they were shot from the back.

A VW Golf 4 with registration number GT 1051 S, believed to belong to Awal, was seen parked about 10 metres away from where Irene lay.

The front seat of the car bore slippers which appeared to belong to Awal.

The Crime Officer of the Odorkor Police Station, ASP Felix Anyidoho said the assailant(s) might not be robbers since the two deceased persons had their jewelry and mobile phones intact.

Speaking to Daily Guide at the Greater Accra Regipnal Police Command offices, Inspector Kwaku Dompreh of the Public Affairs Directorate said the police had mounted intensive investigations into the shooting incident.

He said an investigative team had visited the area and spoken to individual members of the two families, appealing to them to volunteer information to the police.

Mr. Dompreh appealed to the public to also volunteer information in order to help the police to unravel the mystery surrounding this latest shooting incident.


Source: Daily Guide