Police in the Ashanti Region are in search of a 40-year-old man alleged to have killed his 30-year-old pregnant wife at Nyankyerenease within the Kumasi metropolis.

The suspect, Kwame Maxwell is believed to have stabbed his wife, Betty on the dawn of Saturday and escaping subsequently.

Eyewitness believe that the deceased confronted her husband over suspicions that he was cheating on her.

The landlady, Ama Nyarko indicated that on the morning of the crime, she heard a loud cry for help from the room of the deceased and proceeded to the scene where she saw the suspect with blood-stained hands rushing out of the room.

“Just when I was dozing off I heard someone saying ‘he’s killing me’ just once and that was it. I didn’t hear any cry again, so I got terrified and woke up. My son woke up too. We later realized the cry was coming from the deceased’s room. So we went out, and I stood in front of the door leading to the room, while my son also stood in front of another door.”

“The man had put off all the light in the room, so it was difficult to see what was happening in the room. The man came out, and we saw bloodstains all over his hands. My son shouted that the man had stabbed his wife. So I saw him using the wife’s nightwear to wipe the bloodstains on his hand. He then left the room. I followed him while he was going out and all of a sudden he jumped the wall and left. I asked why he was rushing out, but he didn’t answer me.”

“I then came back to check on the wife. That was when my son started screaming that the man had killed the wife,” the landlady disclosed.

Police in the area have commenced investigations. The landlady has urged that the “police fish out Maxwell wherever he may be.”