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Information reaching Daily Guide indicates that Dr Raymond Kasei, a senior lecturer at the University of Development Studies (UDS), Navrongo campus, has been caged by the Amasaman Police in connection with the death of his wife. Raymond, who is suspected to be in his early 30s, had carried the lifeless body of his wife, Clara, a dental nurse at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital�s Dental Clinic, to the Nsawam Government Hospital after he claimed that the woman had committed suicide, in the early hours of yesterday. A source said the police disputed Raymond�s report that his wife had hanged herself with a rope to a ceiling fan in their bedroom at the Damax Estates at Kuntunse, near the Earth satellite dish near Amasaman. Even though the Amasaman police have been tight-lipped on the matter, a source close to the police and the deceased told DAILY GUIDE that the lecturer was handcuffed at the hospital moments after the arrival of the police. Clara was last seen by her neighbours on Sunday evening November 6, 2011 at a residents� meeting. �We saw her yesterday looking plump and we were even teasing her,� said a neighbour. The source said that Clara�s elder sister and husband reported the suspected murder to the Amasaman police where officers were dispatched immediately to the Nsawam Hospital to arrest Raymond, a lecturer at the Faculty of Applied Sciences of UDS, after he had sent the body there. Checks made by the police at the crime scene allegedly showed distortions in the narration of the lecturer. The police found that the bedroom door as well as the ceiling fan was intact while Raymond had insisted that his wife locked the bedroom door after a quarrel the previous night and slept alone in the living room. He said he got worried when his wife was still locked up in the room so he broke the door only to find her motionless body hanging by the fan. The lecturer, who is barely a year at UDS, had also claimed that he was assisted by someone to severe the rope before bringing the body down. He was however unable to give the name of the said person to the police for interrogation. Meanwhile, residents had maintained that they never knew about the incident until the body was deposited at the Nsawam Government Hospital, raising further suspicions about the conduct of Raymond. Clara�s remains have since been referred to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital�s morgue awaiting autopsy examination. She left behind two young children. The police, according to the source, were making efforts to unravel the circumstances that led to the alleged murder. Raymond was said to have studied Watershed Hydrology at Bonn University in Germany.