Three remanded for causing harm

Tema, Feb. 19, GNA - Three persons were on Thursday remanded by the Tema Circuit Court "A" for unlawfully causing harm to tenants in a house at Ashaiman.

Kwame Kpako, Eric Duah and Gideon Addo, all pleaded not guilty, while three others, Obogo, Fire and Emma are at large. They are to reappear on March 17.

Prosecuting, Police Chief Inspector Christopher Quaicoe, told the court presided over by Mr Charles Asiedu that on February 15, this year, the six accused persons walked through the house where the complainants lived.

The prosecution said Aaron Agbenyo, one of the complainants who was in the house at the time challenged the accused persons not to walk through the house again.

He said the six accused persons became offended, picked up a quarrel with Agbenyo, but when they were separated the six left only to return about 10 minutes later accompanied by a group of young men welding implements including cutlasses, and sticks to attack the tenants but they (tenants) managed to escape.

The prosecution said on the following day the accused persons together with some members of their gang now at large, attacked the complainants in the house with cutlasses and sticks, subjected them to severe beating, harming them in the process as they inflicted inflicting cutlass wounds on some of them.

In the cause of the attack, some members of the group stole 1.1 million cedis from the pockets of some of the tenants, Kwame Nyarko and Oduro and a report was made to the police that led to their arrest.