Pastor accused of murder after wife is found dead in hotel room bathtub in Ghana

Eyewitnesses reported seeing him leave the hotel in a hurry

 

The body of Charmain Adusah, 41, was discovered by hotel staff face down in a bath where it is believed she had been lying for four days, The Mail reports.

Her husband, Eric Isaiah Adusah, a self-proclaimed prophet and evangelical preacher, was alleged to have left the hotel hurriedly on the day she is believed to have died.

Mr Adusah, originally from Ghana, is being held in police custody in Ghana on suspicion of murdering Charmain, whom he married suddenly last September – following a whirlwind romance – in a wedding which shocked her family and friends. 

Charmain already had an eight-year-old son from a previous relationship in Wales but the boy has not yet been told the awful news and was staying with his father, a British man, last night.

Mr Adusah is the leader of Global Light Revival Ministries church based in Tottenham, north London and has been active as a preacher in Britain since 2010.

He has led sermons he describes as ‘divine visitation’ events across the UK and Ireland, receiving £1million in charitable donations in five years and giving sermons on religious satellite television channels.

A close family friend last night accused Mr Adusah of being a ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’, telling The Mail on Sunday: ‘We think he brainwashed her.’

Charmain was described as a ‘free spirit’ who started following Mr Adusah’s church around two years ago. They started a relationship early last year and married in September in London.

The couple had travelled to Ghana early this month so Mr Adusah could preach at a three-day religious conference hosted by controversial evangelist ‘Bishop’ John Yaw Adu, who has been exposed for chaining up mentally ill patients at ‘prayer camps’ for days on end so he could ‘heal’ them through prayer.

After the conference ended, the couple apparently reconciled following an argument and checked into the Mac-Dic Royal Plaza Hotel in Koforidua, where they booked in for five days on March 16. The upmarket hotel has security gates and tropical gardens. 

The couple were said to have argued over the length of their stay, according to the reports, with Mrs Adusah apparently wanting to stay in Ghana for a month but her husband saying it was far too long.

Mr Adusah is said to have left the hotel at dawn the next day and warned reception that his wife did not want to be disturbed. 

But hotel managers became concerned when she still had not left the room and would not respond to knocks on the door. On March 20 hotel porters used a spare key to gain access to the room.

A spokesman for Criminal Investigation Department (CID) at the police headquarters in Koforidua said Mrs Adusah was ‘found dead in the bath lying prostrate with a white towel wrapped around her, almost in a decomposed state’.

Mrs Stephen, a close friend of the deceased, said none of her friends took to him. ‘We thought he tried to cut her off from us, that he had brain-washed her. What person declares himself a prophet? Charmain was religious but she wasn’t a pastor.’

Charmain’s family wants to go to Ghana and repatriate their daughter’s body but they cannot afford it. Charmain’s mother Linda Speirs, 61, last night said she had been given legal advice not to comment.

A Foreign Office spokesman said: ‘We confirm the death of a British national in Ghana. Mr Adusah has not requested consular assistance.’

A representative of Mr Adusah’s church said: ‘There is no story. She died of natural causes.’