{"id":8373,"date":"2013-06-10T05:13:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T05:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/suspected-homosexual-murdered-in-ghana\/"},"modified":"2013-06-10T05:13:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T05:13:34","slug":"suspected-homosexual-murdered-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/suspected-homosexual-murdered-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected Homosexual Murdered in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{News from Ghana indicates that residents of the New Town suburb of Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region are yet to come to terms with the murder of a man suspected to be homosexual. }} <\/p>\n<p>Samuel Osae Boampong, a tailor in his late twenties who plied his trade at the Sunyani main market was allegedly killed by his partner. <\/p>\n<p>The incident is reported to have happened after their love affair between the deceased and his male lover from Kumasi turned sour. <\/p>\n<p>Kuuku Abban of Sky FM reported that Samuel was last seen on Friday night entering his room with another young man. He was later found dead in his room.<\/p>\n<p>Police suspect murder and have began investigations into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The Regional Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Christopher Tawiah said initial investigations reveal that Samuel had sexual relations with the \u201cguy from Kumasi [who] visited him&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven at the scene of the crime, police found condom with some specimen in it&#8230;\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The Police PRO said while the two were locked in Samuel&#8217;s room, some residents said they heard screams but \u201cthey did not see anything\u201d when they came out, \u201cso they went back to sleep\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday morning, DSP Tawiah said, Samuel was found dead in his room, lying face down and stabbed all over with a kitchen knife. The police say he had deep cuts in his chest. The murderer, he added, is at large.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Samuels\u2019s body has been deposited at the regional hospital morgue.<\/p>\n<p>{myjoyonline}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{News from Ghana indicates that residents of the New Town suburb of Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region are yet to come to terms with the murder of a man suspected to be homosexual. }} Samuel Osae Boampong, a tailor in his late twenties who plied his trade at the Sunyani main market was allegedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-8373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8373"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=8373"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=8373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}