A 47-year-old Burkinabe, Boigouna Aloys, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the High Court in Accra after being found guilty of killing his German wife and their daughter at Kokrobitey in Accra.
He was convicted after a seven-member jury panel returned a unanimous guilty verdict against him on two counts of murder after a full trial.
The convict was said to have used a hammer to hit the head of his late wife, Claudia Weizmann, 53, and, sensing that their 14-year-old daughter would report the matter to the police, strangled her to death.
The prosecution, led by Yvonne Yaachie-Adomako, an Assistant State Attorney, called five witnesses to prove their case.