Charmain Speirs, a 40-year-old Scottish woman, found happiness through Pentecostalism after years of personal struggles, but her life took a tragic turn when she met a man she believed was her divine match.
She connected with Eric Adusah, a charismatic preacher from Ghana who led the Global Light Revival Church and was known to his followers as a prophet who received direct revelations from God. Their whirlwind romance led to marriage in September 2014.
Just six months later, Charmain was found dead in a hotel bathtub in Ghana. Adusah was briefly arrested on suspicion of murder but was released due to insufficient evidence. He has consistently denied any involvement in her death.
Now, a decade later, a BBC investigation has uncovered significant gaps in Adusah's account of the events surrounding Charmain's death.
"You have the hotel attendant speaking at various times with various people going in and out," says retired Scottish Detective Superintendent Allan Jones, who reviewed the Ghanaian police files. "And for him not to mention that once is very strange."
Hotel staff reported that on the night of Charmain's death, Adusah arrived with two tall men who accompanied him to their room. One was carrying a briefcase. According to a witness identified only as Edward, the men stayed for approximately an hour before helping Adusah load bags into his car. Adusah left the hotel around 1 a.m., instructing staff not to disturb his wife.
These visitors were never mentioned in Adusah's police statements. Two of the men were later identified and claimed they were in the room praying, with one describing Charmain as "vibrant and all kicking, moving up and down." A third man appears to have never been located by investigators.
Adusah told police he left the hotel to travel to Accra for a 6 a.m. meeting with a reverend before a scheduled flight back to the UK. However, when the BBC located this reverend, he did not corroborate Adusah's story. There is no evidence Ghanaian investigators ever verified this alibi.
"The person that he says he's going to meet at 6 a.m. is an important person to see, to verify whether or not this meeting is true," Jones notes. "If that's not happened, that's a poor reflection on the investigators of the time."
Shortly before Charmain's autopsy, Adusah informed police that his wife was suicidal and had a history of drug abuse. Pathologist Dr. Afua Abrahams, who conducted the examination, found no signs of violence or trauma on the body but was surprised to discover heroin metabolites in Charmain's blood and liver samples.
Charmain's friends and family describe a woman who had faced numerous challenges before finding faith. After moving from her hometown of Arbroath to Glasgow, then to Swansea where she studied photojournalism and became a single mother, she struggled with post-natal depression before joining Liberty Church.
Her marriage to Adusah quickly changed her life. Friends who previously saw her daily suddenly had little contact. While she embraced her new role as "first lady" of the church, she confided in her mother that the marriage lacked love and passion and that she planned to return home to Scotland.
Instead, she traveled to Ghana with Adusah, where she would die under circumstances that remain unexplained. The Ghana Police Service did not respond to questions about the investigation.