Mason gets seven-year jail term for causing harm

Accra, Feb. 12, GNA - An Accra Circuit Court on Monday sentenced a 24-year-old mason to seven years' imprisonment with hard labour for inflicting cutlass wounds on a sales assistant who intervened in a scuffle.

Christopher Dagblenu Mamudeka pleaded guilty to causing unlawful harm and the court convicted him accordingly.

Mr Foster Addo, the victim, who received a deep cut on his left arm, is responding to treatment.

Prosecuting, Chief Inspector Johnson K. Anim said on at about 1100 hours on February 7, this year Mr Addo and his brother's wife known as Nardu were having launch when one Patience joined them. Without any provocation Mamudeka took a sharp cutlass and confronted Patience. Mamudeka slashed Mr Addo's left arm with the cutlass when he intervened.

The prosecution said Mamudeka's action did not go down well with the inhabitants hence they assaulted him and handed him over to the Police.

During Police interrogation, Mamudeka claimed that it was the inhabitants who rather attacked and in his attempt to defend himself, he slashed Mr Addo's arm.