TRADER REMANDED FOR CAUSING HARM (PAGE 21)

A 43-year-old Accra-based trader, Afua Agyeiwaa has been remanded in prison custody for a month by the New Edubiase District magistrate’s Court, for allegedly using a nail to injure the eye of her rival.
The victim who suffered serious eye injury, was rushed to St Francis Xavier Hospital at Assin Fosu but was referred to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital where she was admitted for medical care.
Agyeiwaa, who was charged with causing harm, will reappear before the court presided over by Mr Stephen Tabiri on August 24, this year.
Giving the facts of the case at the court, Chief Inspector Benjamin Stephen Aboagye said the incident occurred on July 27, this year when the two women met in the room of their boyfriend, Mr Justice Oppong, a cold store operator at Adansi Praso in the Ashanti Region.
He said both Agyeiwaa and the victim in the case, one Ataa, aged 19, were aware that their boyfriend was legally married yet they continued to flirt with him.
Chief Inspector Aboagye said it was the suspect who first went into the room of her boyfriend in his absence and while there, the victim also entered, but as soon as she entered the room, the suspect demanded to know what she had come to do in her ‘husband’s’ room.
The prosecutor said when Ataa responded that their boyfriend was legally married and that they were both flirting with him illegally, the suspect flared up and punched Ataa.
He said the victim also replied by punching the suspect, adding that the latter became so incensed that she brought out a nail she had hidden in her bag and injured Ataa in the eye with it.
The prosecutor stated that when the suspect realised the consequences of her action, she took to her heels with a view to escape justice.
He said the scream by the victim attracted many sympathisers who immediately rushed her to the St Francis Xavier Hospital at Assin Fosu where she was referred to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.
Chief Inspector Aboagye said as the news of the incident started making rounds, the accused who had then crossed the Pra River in her attempt to escape, was arrested and handed over to the Assin Fosu police who in turn handed her over to the Adansi Praso police for investigation and prosecution.