Labourer remanded for causing harm to mason(8/1/09)

Story: Jennifer Dornoo and Matilda Asantewaa Adjaye
A 30-year-old labourer, Kwabena Amankwa Andoh, has been remanded in police custody by an Accra Circuit Court for causing harm to a 51-year-old mason, Seth Oppong, at La-Bawaleshie, East Legon in Accra.
He pleaded guilty to a charge of causing harm and the court, presided over by Mrs Elizabeth Ankumah, deferred sentence to January 13, 2009 but asked Kwabena to pay the GH¢400 medical bill of the complainant.
Presenting the facts of the case, Chief Inspector John Asare said on November 22, 2008 at about 5:30p.m., the complainant had an argument with his landlady, who is Andoh’s mother-in-law, over the complainant’s rent.
He said the accused then warned the complainant to stop quarrelling with the old lady and that if he did not stop, he would beat him to death.
Andoh stopped the argument and went to his room to eat but while the complainant thought it was all over, Kwabena rushed into his (complainant’s) room with a machete and slashed him twice at the back of his head leaving him bleeding.
He said after causing the harm, Andoh went to sit at a nearby drinking spot with the machete in his hand and a witness raised an alarm.
The complainant was then rushed to the police station for a complaint to be lodged and later rushed to hospital where he was admitted for three days.
When Andoh was arrested he admitted the offence in a caution statement to the police and was charged with the offence.