An unending spate of accusations, taunts and intimidation against an 85-year-old woman by her own children and others in town, which depicted her as a witch, has driven her to take her own life. The deceased, Comfort Ama Pokua, alias Akua Atta, of Nkwatia in the Kwahu South District of the Eastern Region, hanged herself in the toilet of her grandchildren's apartment in the early morning of September 30, this year. Akua Pokua was accused of being responsible for the deaths of her grandson, his wife and children through a motor accident some time this year by the power of her alleged witchcraft. In a telephone interview on Friday, the Mpraeso District Police Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) P.K Addo, told the Daily Graphic that in the early hours of September 30, the Sanahene of Nkwatia informed the police that an old woman had hanged herself in her grandchildren's apartment at Nkwatia. He said a team of police investigators who went to the scene took the body to the Atibie Government Hospital for autopsy. According to DSP Addo, the deceased, who was living with her grandchildren in Accra, had gone to Nkwatia last month for a funeral, after which she invited one of the grandchildren living in Accra to visit her at Nkwatia. The District Commander said the grandson, his wife and their children honoured the invitation of the old lady and spent some-days with her and the rest of the family at Nkwatia. He said while returning to Accra, the grandson, his wife and the children, as well as other passengers on an Accra-bound commercial vehicle, were involved in an accident which claimed the lives of all the occupants. He pointed out that as a result of the accident, some family members, as well as others from the community, started pointing accusing fingers at the old lady as the "brain behind the deaths". Consequently, DSP Addo said, the deceased, unable to bear the accusations against her, decided to take her life to end the agony she was being subjected to. Akua Pokua who was living with her grandchildren at Nkwatia at the time, was later found hanging by a sponge round her neck in one of the toilets in the house. Source: Daily Graphic