An Accra Circuit Court has handed down a sentence for a 33-year-old carpenter who used a knife to stab a self-employed man three times in the back.
Kwasi Adu, who was accused of harming someone, entered a guilty plea.
Adu was found guilty based on his own admission in the court presided over by Isaac Addo and given a two-year prison term.
According to the information provided by Chief Inspector Josephine Lamptey, the accuser, now convicted, was a carpenter at Kantamanto as well as the complainant Isaac Afari.
Afari at nighttime took care of Madam Gifty Lamptey’s shop, a witness in the case, according to the prosecution.
According to the report, the inmate once slept in front of the mentioned shop throughout the night. When the complainant told him not to do so again, the convict allegedly grew enraged and attacked him.
“On May 28, 2023, at about 0730 hours, the complainant saw the convict sleeping in front of the shop again and when he confronted him, he became offended and attacked him again which generated into a misunderstanding.
Sympathizers came in and calmed the situation down,” the prosecution added.
According to the prosecution, after the complainant left the area to purchase “waakye,” the defendant frenziedly pursued him and stabbed him three times in the back.
It said that after purposefully and unlawfully harming the complainant, the criminal fled, but was tracked and detained by sympathizers at the Railways Police Station.
According to the prosecution, the complainant was taken urgently to Ussher Polyclinic for care.
It said the complainant came back to the Police station and lodged a formal complaint and he was issued with a medical form to be sent to Ussher Polyclinic for endorsement by the medical officer who treated him.
“On May 31, 2023, the complainant brought the medical form duly endorsed by Dr Linda Owusu Asante of the Ussher Polyclinic indicating that the harm was caused with a knife,” the prosecution added.