Mother prays court to extend son's sentence

An Accra Circuit Tribunal on Wednesday sentenced Maxwell Agyemang, a driver, to 36 months' imprisonment for threatening to kill her mother with a stick.

Initially, the tribunal chaired by Mr Ziblim Imoro, sentenced Agyemang to 12 months imprisonment but the convict's mother, Madam Monica Ampomah, 56, who said she wanted her son to come out of prison as a reformed person, prayed the tribunal to extend the sentence.

"My son had warned that if he is not sentenced to life imprisonment he would return to kill me," Madam Ampomah said.

Agyemang, 35, pleaded guilty to threat of death.

Prosecuting Police Chief Inspector Joseph K. Adu said the Mother, who is a trader, lives with her son at Tantra Hill in Accra.

Whenever Agyemang needed money he went to his mother to collect some but on August 10 she could not afford the 100,000 cedis he demanded and he threatened to kill her.

Agyemang rejected 25,000 cedis the mother offered him. He pushed her onto a table, picked two big sticks and attempted to hit her. The mother then collected 25,000 cedis from someone and added it to her 25,000 cedis and gave to her son before he released her.

She later made a report to the Police.