An eighteen-year-old resident of Ashaiman, Joshua Tetteh, who was lynched in a church by an angry mob on Tuesday for stealing a car battery, used his last breath to advice the youth who are walking in his footsteps to repent.
Before this demise, Tetteh confessed in an interview with this paper on his dying bed at the Tema General Hospital that, �I regret having been a thief and I will not steal again, if I get the opportunity to survive.�
Unfortunately, he passed away hours later after the confessions at the Tema General Hospital and his remains have since been deposited at the police morgue.
According to eyewitness Samuel Ameterpey, he was rudely woken up from his sleep by loud shouts at his residence near Fitting Line, a suburb of Ashaiman where the suspected thief failed in an attempt to steal a car battery.
�When I came out, I saw a young man being pursued by a mob who claimed he and his friends were trying to steal a battery from one of the vehicles in the neighborhood,� he said.
He continued that, without hesitation, he joined the pursuit until they overpowered the thief, who attempted to seek refuge in the premises of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saints, near the Gumzang Nite Club, but they managed to locate him.
�My brother, we gave him the beatings of his life and I believe it would be an alarm bell to those who want to reap where they have not sown,� he howled.
A senior nurse, Paddita Lartey, who admitted the thief at the Tema hospital, disclosed that Tetteh had sustained multiple injuries and deep cutlass wounds and his chance of survival was little.
The police, in their investigations, revealed that the suspect in the early hours of Tuesday around 3:00a.m told one of his brothers he was paying their father a visit at Jericho for his school fees, but little did they know that he had a different agenda.
Two of his colleagues, who he went on the stealing spree with, are believed to be on the run after the foiled operations.
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