Three persons who allegedly beheaded a 12 year-old boy at Techiman for ritual purposes to become rich were on Monday arraigned before a circuit court in Sunyani. Superintendent Fredrick Adjei, prosecutor, told the court presided over by Mr John Ekow Mensah that the police were compelled to arraign the suspects because all the magistrates were not sitting and that suspects were not to be in police custody for more than 48 hours The court remanded suspects; Sumalia Yahaya, 32, Kwasi Kuma 45 and Yaw Fosu, 28 into prison custody for them to reappear on Tuesday May 31, 2011. Sumaila was arrested by the police for allegedly beheading the boy for ritual purposes but was arrested with the boy's head at Techiman in the abode of a spiritualist where he had gone to allegedly perform rituals for riches last Friday. The spiritualist who had earlier been contacted by Sumalia also alerted the Police on Sumaila's crime Sumaila's two accomplices; Kuma and Fosu who were on the run were also arrested later in their hide outs by the police. He initially told the Police that he got the human head from a corpse that had been buried at Kunsu, a farming community in Kintampo North Municipality. Investigation by the Police however revealed that no child of that age had been dead and buried recently in that town. The police investigative team led by Superintendent Edmund Owusu Boampong, the Kintampo Municipal Police Commander, found a decomposed headless body covered with leaves in a village in the Atebubu-Amantin District in the region. The highly decomposed body had to be handed over to the family for burial because the police team could not convey it.Source: GNA