Man jailed for stabbing suspected rival
Man jailed for stabbing suspected rival
Accra (Greater Accra) 27 May 2000
An Accra Circuit Tribunal on Tuesday sentenced Moses Annang Yemoh, a trader, to 18 months imprisonment with hard labour for stabbing a tailor, whom he suspected to be flirting with his wife. Yemoh, 30, pleaded not guilty to causing unlawful harm.
Mr. Justice Charles Louis Quist, an Accra High Court Judge, sitting as Circuit Tribunal Chairman, ordered Yemoh to pay two million cedis as compensation to the tailor, Mr. Emmanuel Anum Adjei. He will go to prison for another three months in hard labour, if he failed to pay the money.
The Prosecution’s case was at about 22:30 hours on June 3 last year, Yemoh's wife invited Mr. Adjei to her house to pass on some information.
Yemoh, who lives in a different house, was also visiting his wife and the child when he met Adjei there, and accused him of flirting with his wife.
He was said to have pounced on him and beaten him mercilessly. Yemoh later took a broken bottle and stabbed Mr Adjei on the left eye. He became unconscious following profuse bleeding. Witnesses in the case then rushed Mr Adje to the Police Hospital.
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