Pricilla Mensah, a 27-year-old married woman who pouted a substance, suspected to be acid on the face of her husband, but turned round to report to WAJU that he husband had rather assaulted her, has been remanded in prison custody for one week by a Sekondi Circuit court.
Joseph Agbeko Dzikunu, a 38-year-old mason, who accompanied her niece, Pricilla Mensah to the house of the husband, Nicholas Blay at Sawmill, a suburb of Takoradi, where the harm was caused, has also been remanded, as both uncle and niece will reappear on Thursday, April 15, 2004.
Prosecuting, Inspector Alex Cosmos stated that in the latter part of 2003, a quarrel ensured between the couple, Pricilla Mensah and Nicholas Blay, and Pricilla packed from the matrimonial home at Sawmill to put up with the mother at the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis. While efforts were being made to reunite the couple, Pricilla and the uncle, Dzikunu, went to Blay?s house on February 8, 2004 at about 8pm and knocked at his door.
When Blay came out to see who the caller was, Pricilla poured a substance, suspected to be acid onto the face of her husband, which made Blay become temporary blind and started screaming for help, while the accused persons bolted and left Blay to his fate. Blay was only rescued by a witness named Ishmael Van Sabestian who rushed to him to the Kwesimintsim Polyclinic for treatment.
Inspector Cosmos told the court that Pricilla Mensah, sensing danger, rushed to the offices of WAJU in Sekondi and reported a case of assault against he husband. In the courts of the police investigations, the truth finally came out, and Pricilla Mensah (1st accused) and Joseph Agbeko Dzikunu (2nd accused), were arrested and charged with the offence of conspiracy to commit crime and causing unlawful harm.
