Jihad Chaaban, the Lebanese supervisor who has been jailed for assaulting one of his employees has instructed his lawyers to file for an appeal against his nine-month sentence at the Abeka District Court.
A lawyer for Chaaban said his side disagreed with the judgment and was going to immediately start working on the appeal process.
The Judge, Victoria Eggs Ghansah, in her judgment, said the prosecution had been able to prove beyond every reasonable doubt that the accused committed the offense.
But Chaaban’s lawyer said “we entirely disagree with the findings of the court. We thought that we put up a very good defense. She [the judge] thought otherwise.”
“The real investigator of the case said from the evidence before her it was an accident. We have said it was an accident, she thought otherwise. We have taken instructions from our client to appeal immediately. We are going back to the chambers to start working on the appeal process,” the lawyer said.
Jihad Chaaban, was reported in February to have shoved the victim, Evelyn Boakye, into some pepper. According to the prosecution, he accused her of fidgeting with the blender and working too slowly.
Chaaban was charged and convicted for offensive conduct for calling the victim a prostitute and intentionally and unlawfully causing harm and assault.
Source: citifmonline.com
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Best practices. He should be deported after serving the prison term.
We Ghanians have to go tough on Libaneese , Chineese and any other foriegner that misbave in our country.
I am unemployed and I am good at putting pepper in people's face so i think i can do your job whiles you are in prison, can you please tell management to hire me whiles you are away for 9 months (maybe more).
After your full sentence when you are released (after Xmas), will you eat pepper-free marwako fried rice? Please, this is an innocent question that I want to ask you.
That your arrogant lawyer (calling himself Julio) is just chopping your money (plus free marwako takeaway). but you don't know. You will get a harder sentence on appeal - watch and see.
I AM PRAYING THAT THE APPEAL WILL SEE HIM (JIHAD CHAABAN)BEING GIVEN HARDER SENTENCING LIKE SEVEN YEARS TO SERVE AS DETERRENT TO OTHERS. PEOPLE JUST MISBEHAVE IN GHANA AND THINK GHANAIANS ARE ***barred word*** PEOPLE FOR THEM TO TAKE US FOR A RIGHT. JIHAD SHOULD GO TO EITHER CHINA, USA, UK AND SOME OF THOSE COUNTRIES WHO VALUE THEIR CITIZENS AND PUT UP SUCH A BEHAVIOUR AND SEE IF HE (JIHAD) WILL NOT BE SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISONMENT. GHANAIAN LAWYERS MUST TAKE THEIR NATIONALS SERIOUSLY. IF THIS HAD BEING ONE POOR GHANAIAN VILLAGE FARMER WHO HAD ACTED THAT WAY TO HIS WIFE THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN HELL BREAK LOOSE FOR HIM TO SERVE FOR OVER SEVEN YEARS. GHANAIAN LAWYERS SHOULD SIT UP AND STOP THOSE INFERIORITY COMPLEX BEING ALWAYS EXHIBITED WHEN A FOREIGNER IS INVOLVED.
You put pepper in someone's eyes. Now, they have put pepper in your eyes. They serve marwako shamarma in prison so go and eat some there.
9 months is small, you should get at least 9 years. We shall see how you will eat marwarko fried rice and put pepper in the eyes of other prisoners. By the way, are you going to Nsawam or Kete Krachi prison? Which one, tell us.