By Hafsa Obeng, GNA
Accra, Jan. 29, GNA – An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a scrap dealer, Senu Abass, to a day imprisonment each for causing harm to one Moses Nyamedor and possessing narcotic drugs without lawful authority.
Senu who pleaded guilty to both charges on his first appearance before court presided over by Mr Aboagye Tandoh was convicted on his own plea but his sentence was deferred for him to be medically examined at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital.
The court said the accused person exhibited strange gestures whilst in court and this called for medical examination, in respect of his current state of mind.
“The hospital must examine whether he is in the right state of mind to have pleaded guilty to the charges.”
The court on Tuesday sentenced him to a day imprisonment each on both counts by virtue of his show of remorse and pleading guilty on his first appearance.
It was revealed at the trial, that in the laboratory the substance found on the accused tested positive as a narcotic drug weighing 8.56 grammes.
The court ordered the accused to also to pay a fine of 50 penalty units, or in default spend an additional one month in prison.
The court also ordered the Criminal Investigations Department to assist the court registrar to destroy the substance.
The court said in sentencing the accused it took into consideration the 13 months Senu had already spent in custody and also the fact that he was a first-time offender.
The facts of the case as narrated by the Prosecution led by Police Inspector Samuel Ahiabor, was that the complainant is businessman who lives at Darkuman near Official Town, while the accused person is a scrap dealer at Alajo.
The prosecution said the complainant is a paternal uncle to Senu.
He said Senu lives at the Alajo market but blames his lack of progress in life on his biological mother.
He said on October 31, 2018 at about 2230 hours, the accused person armed himself with a sharp razor blade and went to Darkuman Official Town, his grandfather’s house, where his mother lives, went to her room and slapped her.
The prosecution said, Senu asked his mother ‘you woman if I kill you right now, am I wrong?’
He said Senu’s mother started shouting, calling the complainant for help so the complainant rushed to the scene and met the accused at the entrance of the house and confronted him.
Mr Ahiabor said unknowingly to the complainant that the accused was armed, he approached the convict to calm him down, but Senu slashed him on the face, and went ahead to cause damage to the entrance door.
He told the court that Senu was arrested by some boys in the vicinity but was later freed.
On November 3, 2018 Senu resurfaced at the complainant’s house, armed with a screw driver, with the intention to attack his mother. This time luck eluded him and he was arrested and sent to the Darkuman Police station.
He said a search conducted on him revealed one wrapper of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp, and other items.
He admitted the offence during investigation.
GNA
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