{"id":208432,"date":"2014-08-11T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/hunter-jailed-six-months-for-causing-harm-to-couple\/"},"modified":"2014-08-11T14:06:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T14:06:00","slug":"hunter-jailed-six-months-for-causing-harm-to-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/08\/11\/hunter-jailed-six-months-for-causing-harm-to-couple\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter jailed six months for causing harm to couple"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A 42-year-old concrete block moulder at Dodowa in the Greater Accra region, Kobina Aperkor has been sentenced to six months imprisonment for causing harm and possessing arms without authority.<\/p>\n

He pleaded guilty on both counts and was subsequently convicted on his own plea by the Dodowa Magistrate court last Friday. Both charges are to run concurrently.<\/p>\n

Also, the convict, who claimed to be hunting for the past 30 years, was to pay a fine of 20 penalty units, representing GH\u00a2240.<\/p>\n

In default, Kobina would serve another month in hard labour at the Akuse Prison.<\/p>\n

Briefing Myjoyonline.com, the Dodowa District Police Commander, Superintendent Samuel Kwesi Ofori said at about 2 am on August 6, 2014, Kobina Aperkor, a block moulder and native of Dodowa Aperkor, a settler community, went hunting for bush meat around the Chenku forest in Dodowa.<\/p>\n

On reaching a distance of about 30 meters away from a farm hut where the complainant, Isaac Narh and his wife, Georgina Adzo Nagatey, were having a nap, Kobina apparently saw an animal, which was lying behind Georgina and hurriedly shot at it with his single barreled gun.<\/p>\n

It later turned out to be the complainant’s foreign dog, which he had killed.<\/p>\n

In that event, Supt. Ofori mentioned that some of the pellets from the gun shot injured the lower buttocks and the upper right elbow of Georgina, aged 32.<\/p>\n

While the 33-year-old farmer, Isaac, sustained injuries on his feet, the upper left elbow and the left thigh.<\/p>\n

They have since been receiving treatment at both the Korle Bu Teaching and the Dodowa hospitals.<\/p>\n

The police said since Kobina failed to produce documents covering the weapon, the court issued a warrant for its confiscation.<\/p>\n

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