Kofi Fosu, a car washer who allegedly pushed his girlfriend from a storey building after assaulting her over allegations of infidelity, has been dragged to an Accra Circuit Court for causing unlawful harm.
The accused person was said to have initially hit Cynthia Ansah several times in the left eye during a misunderstanding, before later pushing her from the first floor of a wooden building when she fell and sustained serious injuries, apart from dislocating her right arm.
His plea was not taken and the trial judge, Justice Georgina Mensah-Datsa, ordered that he should be remanded in police custody to re-appear on January 3, 2012.
Sarah Ekua Acquah, the prosecuting officer, who presented the facts of the case, told the court that the complainant was a hairdresser who lived at Agbogbloshie and the accused person, a car washer at Sabon Zongo, near Abbosey Okai.
She said the two had been lovers for one-and-a-half years, adding that on Monday, December 19, 2011, the accused person visited the hairdresser at her residence.
According to her, the car washer, who suspected that his lover was cheating on him, confronted her, resulting in a misunderstanding which led to his assaulting her.
After the misunderstanding, the hairdresser was standing on the balcony when the estranged lover stamped her right eye till it turned red, before pushing her from the first floor of a wooden structure. She fell and dislocated her right arm.
The matter was reported to the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) and the accused person was given a medical form to attend hospital. The accused person was later arrested and arraigned after police had concluded investigations.
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