Court remands unemployed in custody for rape

Cape Coast, July 11, GNA - Kwesi Abbam, a 21 year-old unemployed was on Tuesday remanded in prison custody by a circuit court for threatening to kill and raping a 22-year old woman in the bush at Agona-Odoben.

Abbam pleaded guilty to both charges and was convicted on his own plea, but sentence was deferred until Monday, 16 July. Prosecuting, Chief Inspector Hope Azasoo, told the court, presided over by Mr Richard Asiedu-Badu that both Abbam and his victim lived in the same vicinity at Agona-Odoben.

He said last Wednesday at about 0600 hours, the woman who was on her way to visit her father in the next village, met the Abbam along the bush path.

The court heard that he snatched a cutlass the victim was holding and threatened to kill her if she did not allow him to have sex with her.

he would kill her and out of fear the she gave in. Chief Azasoo said after sexually abusing her, Abbam gave back the cutlass to the woman and showed her the way to his residence so that she could be visiting him. He said when the woman got home, she reported the matter to her husband who also informed the police. The prosecutor said Abbam admitted the offence in his statement to the police.