The Odumase-Krobo Circuit Court has sentenced a 27-year-old driver, Nartey Tetteh Adjei, to five years in prison for attacking a farmer with a cutlass.<\/p>\n
The incident occurred during a dispute over a stray piglet in Kpongunor, a suburb of Odumase-Krobo in the Eastern Region.<\/p>\n
According to the prosecution, led by Chief Inspector John Brahene, the incident occurred on August 9, 2025, at about 5:00 p.m.<\/p>\n
He noted that the complainant, Mr Emmanuel Ofoe, an animal farmer, discovered that one of his piglets had escaped from its pen and was feeding behind the accused\u2019s house.<\/p>\n
The prosecutor stated that while attempting to retrieve the animal, Ofoe saw Adjei throw a stone at the piglet, injuring it.<\/p>\n
The farmer confronted Adjei, who initially apologised and promised to address the matter, but later failed to do so.<\/p>\n
He said that when the farmer later visited Adjei to discuss the piglet\u2019s worsening condition, the accused became angry, went into his room, retrieved a cutlass, and inflicted deep wounds on Mr Ofoe\u2019s head and left arm.<\/p>\n
The victim managed to escape and, with the help of his sister, reported the matter to the police.<\/p>\n
He was issued a medical form, treated at a local hospital, and later referred to the Regional Hospital for further care.<\/p>\n
Inspector Brahene stated that Adjei was subsequently arrested and, during police interrogation, admitted to the offence.<\/p>\n
He was charged with causing harm, contrary to Section 69 of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29) and was subsequently convicted to serve as a deterrent to others.<\/p>\n
Police have since cautioned the public to use lawful means in resolving disputes to prevent violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Odumase-Krobo Circuit Court has sentenced a 27-year-old driver, Nartey Tetteh Adjei, to five years in prison for attacking a farmer with a cutlass. The incident occurred during a dispute over a stray piglet in Kpongunor, a suburb of Odumase-Krobo in the Eastern Region. According to the prosecution, led by Chief Inspector John Brahene, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":12662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3788,238,41],"tags":[76,3911,3910],"class_list":["post-12661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-crime","category-general-news","tag-court","tag-farmer","tag-piglet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12663,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12661\/revisions\/12663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}