Man sentenced to 5 years in prison for injuring 102-year-old woman | criminality

A 27-year-old graphic designer was sentenced Monday to five years in jail for causing harm to a 102-year-old woman in Teshie, near Accra.

Joel Mensa Mawuli pleaded guilty to causing harm when he appeared before the circuit court but stated that he was not guilty of a second charge of attempted crime (robbery).

Therefore, he will return from prison to court on April 1, 2019 to defend himself against the prosecution.

The court chaired by Mr. Aboagye Tandoh found Mawuli guilty of having struck the centenary and having physically injured him.

The victim, her grandmother Leticia Osabukele, who would have been able to walk before the incident, was carried by family members into the courtroom because she is now paralyzed.

The case of the prosecution

The facts as presented by the prosecutor, Chief Inspector W.K According to Boateng, Leticia Osabukele was attacked in a restroom a few meters from her room in Teshie.

According to Inspector Boateng, Mawuli, on March 7, 2019 at 7:30 am, slipped into the toilet, attacked her and wanted to withdraw the money she had attached to the size.

To try to hurt her with a broken tile, someone heard her shout and rushed to her rescue.

Upon seeing the witness, Mawuli climbed the fence wall of the old woman and escaped, leaving behind her pair of sandals.

Inspector Boateng said that a complaint had been lodged with the Nungua Police and that Osabukle had received medical forms allowing him to go to the hospital and had been admitted to the military hospital 37 and then released.

Mawuli was reportedly arrested and, after investigation, charged with the offense accordingly.