GHANA – A teacher suspected to have murdered his girlfriend at Gomoa Ajumako in the Central Region has been arrested by the police.

The Apam Police is holding the 40-year-old Eric Tsemenu Sarsah for allegedly beating the girlfriend to death at Gomoa Ajumako.

Sarsah is said to have beaten the 32-year-old teacher and a mother of four, Yaa Linda to death. The two had been cohabitating for some time before the incident.

The incident reportedly took place on Friday in the presence of the children who alerted neighbours and called for help.

Graphic Online gathers that Linda a teacher at Gomoa Ajumako had lived with Sarsah for more than eight years and had four children together but they were not married.

Linda had severally requested the suspect Sarsah to perform the necessary marriage rites so that they could live as a married couple.