Villagers Lynch Mentally Unstable Man Cooking Flesh Of Pregnant Woman He Murdered

A mentally unstable man was lynched by an angry mob after he was caught cooking the flesh of a pregnant woman he had killed. The incident took place in Ghana’s Muramura region Sunday.

Alimatu Karim, 30, left her home Saturday morning to collect nuts but did not return. The following morning, villagers searching for the missing woman found Kofi Sammy cooking some meat behind a bush. They went closer to him and suspected the meat to be human flesh. When the villagers confronted him, Sammy admitted to killing the woman and boiling her corpse before leading them to a pit where Karim’s dismembered body was found, the Ghana Web reported.

The accused was then taken to Chief Palace, the main meeting place of the village, where he waited for the police to arrive. The angry mob, however, forcibly took him from the palace and lynched him.

“Residents in the village meted out instant justice to the alleged murderer, Kofi Sammy, by lynching him for killing 30-year-old, Alimatu Karim,” Ebenezer Tetteh, a police officer told local daily Graphic Online.

“The angry mob forcibly took suspect from the palace and lynched him to death. The mob also set suspect's body on fire but police and the District Chief Executive (DCE) got there in time and quenched the fire,” he added. However, it was too late and the suspect had succumbed to injuries.

The dismembered body of Karim and the corpse of the suspect were taken to a local hospital for autopsy. The relation between the suspect and the victim was not known.

In a similar incident in November 2018, a Moroccan woman killed her boyfriend and cooked his flesh in a traditional Arabic dish called “machboos.” Police said the woman was angry at her partner of seven years after he revealed his plans to marry another woman. In order to get back at him for breaking up, the woman cooked his remains in the dish which she served to some construction workers, the Indian Express reported.