British Jury Hears How a Frustrated Student ‘kills Ghanaian Doctor’ After Failing Exams

A law student killed a Ghanaian female doctor who treated him like a son after he ’snapped’ from the pressure of failing his exams, a British jury heard Monday. The fully packed Maidstone Crown Court in Kent, south-east of London was also told how the renowned celebrated consultant paediatrician Dr Victoria Anyetei, whose murder in 2007 triggered waves of shock across Britain, was knifed 56 times by the frustrated David Quartey.

Quartey, also a Ghanaian, who lived with the devout Christian, had failed exams for a second time and tried to hide this from the 54-year-old doctor, said Anthony Haycroft, prosecuting.

He said Quartey murdered the divorcee mother of one after she discovered the truth about the results.

Dr Anyetei’s son Andrew Thompson, 21, told police that her mother had told him just hours before she died that: “Quartey is “scaring me”.

Prosecutor Haycroft said relations between Quartey and Dr Anyetei, whom he called ’mum’, had been strained at their shared home in Dartford in Kent, after she found out he had lied about his exams.

Quartey, the son of a Ghanaian High Court judge, had a poor attendance record at Kensington Business College in South London; and put his student visa in jeopardy because of the failures in the £14,000-a-year law course.

Quartey, whose prosecutors admittedly described as ‘normal, placid and likable young man, snapped and lost control, and a friend of his, who is due to testify later in the ongoing trial, heard him say that Dr Anyetei was “doing my head in” the day before she died in August last year, the jury was told.

Quartey denied murder.

The trial continues.

Source African Press Agency

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