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The suspect, Frank Kwame Gambrah, 30, who allegedly fled the country to the United Kingdom soon after shooting Darren Danso, 25, at the car park at the Aphrodisiac Night Club in August 2007, was arrested when he was going through arrival formalities at the airport. The Deputy Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Joshua Dogbeda, told the Daily Graphic that both Darren and Frank are British-born Ghanaians who resided in London. He said the two, who were friends, used to visit Ghana frequently to stay for some time and then return to the UK. According to ACP Dogbeda, investigations by the police soon after the incident revealed that Darren befriended both the suspect and his younger brother, Eric Gambrah, in London. He said after some time the relationship turned sour, with violent confrontations developing among the three friends in London and that prompted Darren to come to Ghana in August 2007 to cool off for some time and also avoid any fatal consequences. ACP Dogbeda said the suspect followed up to Ghana and started sending a series of text messages to the deceased that he (Frank) would kill him so Darren should beware, a threat the deceased ignored. However, about 3 am on October 12, 2007 the deceased, together with his white girlfriend, Sofia Babel, stepped out of the Aphrodisiac Night Club at the Airport Residential Area to pick his car which he had parked in front of the National Service Secretariat building which is close to the night club. Unknown to the deceased and his girlfriend, the suspect had laid ambush in the vicinity and so as soon as they entered Darren�s Audi saloon car, the suspect suddenly appeared and fired two shots at Darren�s chest and quickly fled the scene. People from the night club who heard the gunshots rushed to the aid of the deceased and rushed him to the Nyaho Clinic and later to the 37 Military Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. A watchman in the area who witnessed the incident took the registration number of the suspect�s car, GE 1097 Y, and handed it over to the police. Police investigators traced the car used by the suspect and it turned out that it was a rented car. The rental company confirmed that the suspect, Frank Kwame Gambrah, had rented the car on October 4, 2007 and returned it in the morning of October 12, 2007 soon after shooting Darren to death. Thereafter, he fled the country to the UK that very day and all efforts by the police to trace him proved futile. The police then placed his name on the police most wanted list and a copy was given to personnel of the GIS at the KIA to be on the lookout for him. After staying away for exactly two years, the suspect decided to return home, but he was arrested at the airport and handed over to the Homicide Unit of the CID for investigations. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Hanson Gove of the Homicide Unit who led the investigations said the suspect was arraigned before the Osu District Magistrate�s Court on Friday, October 9, 2009 on a provisional charge of murder and remanded to enable the investigation team to complete its work. The suspect made a second appearance in court yesterday.