The Circuit Courtroom at Tarkwa has fined Nangmin Kaal, a 25-year-old small-scale miner, GH¢ 1,200 or in default one yr imprisonment for assaulting his colleague and a police officer at Wassa Akropong within the Western Area.
Additionally, the court docket presided over by Mrs Hathia Ama Manu ordered Kaal to signal a bond to be of excellent behaviour for six months failure of which he would serve two years in jail.
He pleaded responsible to inflicting hurt, harm and resisting arrest.
Superintendent of Police Juliana Essel-Dadzie, who led the prosecution informed the court docket that the complainant, Kwaku Tubin, a small-scale miner and Kaal resided at Adaamaso close to Wassa Akropong, and each labored in the identical mining website.
He mentioned on Thursday, Could 16, 2024, at about 0400 hours, a misunderstanding ensued between the complainant and Kaal after they have been sharing cash from the gold they’d, and within the course of, Kaal hit the complainant’s head with a stick and bolted.
The prosecution mentioned some individuals who occurred to be passing by rescued the complainant and rushed him to the Wassa Akropong Authorities Hospital for therapy the place he was admitted for 4 days and discharged.
He mentioned similar day at about 1000 hours, the police on barrier obligation on the Wassa Akropong Goil filling station had a tip-off that Kaal had boarded a automobile and was heading in direction of Wassa Akropong.
Superintendent Essel-Dadzie mentioned when the automobile arrived on the barrier and the obligation bearers tried to nab Kaal, he resisted arrest and as a substitute managed to flee.
She mentioned a police officer who chased Kaal and had him arrested, was assaulted by Kaal, however with the help of the opposite cops, he was overpowered and handed over to the Wassa Akropong police.