Wife in viral assault video reveals chilling events that led to brutal attack

The wife of John Odartey Lamptey—the man seen in a viral video assaulting her at Ofankor in the Greater Accra Region—has given a chilling account of the attack, alleging he assaulted and violated her after she refused to have sex with him for nearly five months.

According to the victim, their marriage had deteriorated, and she had moved out of the matrimonial home five months earlier due to repeated physical abuse.

She said Lamptey lured her back to the house on Saturday under the pretext that their two-year-old child was seriously ill.

“I was at a funeral when he called to say our lastborn was not feeling well. I rushed home, only to find the children playing. When I asked, he said he told the lie because he wanted to have sex with me,” she recounted.

She told him she would return to her village the next morning since he had deceived her into coming. This angered him, and he accused her of disrespecting him and making excuses whenever he contacted her.

“He told me he had trapped me to kill me,” she said.

The victim narrated that Lamptey then instructed another child, Daniel, to take the children outside. Once they stepped out, he locked the door and violently attacked her.

“He tore my dress and my undershorts, saying he bought them. He even tore the beads around my waist, leaving me naked. He beat me with the metal rod from a standing broom and stepped on me. At one point, he picked up a knife and threatened to cut off my hand,” she said.

She added that she screamed for help, and a man known as Oketeku intervened briefly, managing to snatch the knife from Lamptey.

However, Lamptey allegedly forced him out and continued the assault, smearing pepper between her thighs and private parts before forcibly having sex with her.

The victim said this was not the first time she had suffered abuse, explaining that she had previously reported him to the Tesano and Ofankor Police Stations several times, providing evidence, but no action was taken.

The couple has two children, aged five and two.