Two students of the Tamale Technical University (TaTU) have been handed a death by hanging sentence by a Tamale High Court for murdering the Head Pastor of the End Time Believers Bible Fellowship.

The Court which was presided over by Mr Justice Edward Apenkwah, sentenced the two students, Kwame Dogyi and Obio Akwasi, after the jury had returned a unanimous verdict of guilty of conspiracy to commit crime, to wit murder.

The Tamale High Court in the Northern region has convicted two students to a death for also killing a pastor in a robbery attack ten months ago.

The two who are cousins reportedly murdered 64-year Pastor Ebenezer Ocran in cold blood at his residence at Kumbuyii, near Tamale, on the Tamale-Kumbungu road on November 9, 2017.

They took away his Toyota Highlander vehicle, which Dogyi gave to a sprayer at the Tamale Industrial Area to sell at GHS10,000.

Narrating the incident to the court, the regional state attorney Mr. Quddus Salia who led prosecution indicated that the unfortunate incident occurred on 10th November 2017 after the convicts forced themselves into the room of the deceased at about 12noon and killed him by stabbing him in the chest with a knife and also fractured his skull with a pestle after which they locked the body in a room.

Dogyi Kwame, he added, then took the vehicle to Tamale Industrial Area and handed same to a sprayer requesting that he could sell it as low as 10,000 Ghana cedis.

The sprayer became suspicious and alerted the Police who went for the vehicle and later arrested Dogyi Kwame.

At the Police station, Dogyi Kwame identified Obio Akwasi to Police as his accomplice when the latter went to the Police Station to visit the former.

The two convicts are reported to have stolen a Samsung Galaxy phone, GHS200 along with the Toyota Highlander 4X4 vehicle, with registration number GN 1736-14, all belonging to the deceased.

About 10 p.m. on the same day Ben Asamoah, an assistant pastor of the church, informed the police that he had visited the head pastor and found him dead in his house, while his Toyota Highlander was missing.

Both convicts admitted killing the deceased in their police statements and were subsequently charged with Conspiracy and Murder.

They were committed to stand trial at the High Court in April 11, six months after their arrest, by a district court in the regional capital.

The District court judge before committing the two for trial at the High Court blasted them as “disgrace to their parents, school and don’t deserve to live”, because of their “mindset”.