Body found tied up in hotel room lying in pool of blood

A man found dead in his hotel room in Accra, Ghana, was unlawfully killed, a coroner has concluded.

The body of Adrian BuchananBrowne was found by a cleaner in the washroom of his bedroom at the Paloma Hotel on September 29, 2014. He had last been seen alive the day before.

He was naked. His legs were tied together and he was lying in a pool of blood.

A post mortem carried out by Dr David Rouse after the body was flown back to the UK revealed he had died from multiple stab wounds about his head and neck from a small-bladed weapon, such as a penknife.

His ankle was also broken and may have been stamped on.

Coroner Patricia Harding heard evidence from Kent Police’s Detective Chief Inspector Nick Gossett, who relayed the findings of the Ghanaian police.

Mr Buchanan- Browne, of Churchfield Way in Wye, was working as an agricultural consultant. He was in Accra on business for the Market Development Programme.

He had booked into the hotel on September 27, 2014, and was seen having dinner with two women.

CCTV later showed two women approaching his hotel bedroom on September 28, just minutes before Mr Buchanan-Browne also went to his bedroom. The pair emerged about 40 minutes later and left the hotel by a rear entrance.

A medical card was found in the room belonging to a Diana ManuKesia, a woman that Mr Buchanan-Browne had known from an earlier visit to Sierra Leone and whom he had contacted to say he would be visiting Ghana.

The Ghanaian police were confident that Manu-Kesia was one of the women who entered his apartment, but she has since returned to Sierra Leone. Interpol has issued an international warrant for her arrest in relation to the death.

The other woman has not been identified.

Mr Buchanan-Brown’s wife, Binta, and daughter Amanda, attended the inquest in Maidstone, but did not wish to comment.

Adrian Buchanan-Browne, 59, of Churchfield Road, Wye, died in a hotel room inAccra, Ghana