A driver\u2019s mate,\u00a0 accused of\u00a0 attacking four persons, including a second-year student of the Adisadel College and injured him with a machete on the school campus in Cape Coast, has been remanded\u00a0 by a Cape Coast Circuit Court.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”lFBKSawTzo1RzxbkoGFgveeidakm0zZJ”]Rasheed Kassum, 23, who pleaded not guilty to charges of robbery and causing unlawful harm, was remanded into prison custody to re-appear before the court on Thursday May 14.<\/p>\n
Prosecuting, Police Chief Inspector Charles Yao Anku, told the court presided over by Ms.\u00a0 Sedina Agbemava that the second year student and the other victims; his siblings, lived on the school campus because their father is a member of staff.<\/p>\n
On Monday, April 20, at about 2030 hrs, the victims were returning home from town when, Kassum a resident of Antem , a surburb near the school campus, attacked them with a machete, demanding their phones and money.<\/p>\n
The victims resisted him, resulting in a struggle between the student and Kassum during which kassum inflicted matchete wounds on the student’s right wrist and managed to escape with a mobile phone belonging to one of them.<\/p>\n
However, the victims had already recognized him as a labourer who used to work for a deceased teacher of the school.<\/p>\n
Chief Inspector Anku said the following day, the student , a member of the school\u2019s cadet corps, mobilised his colleagues,\u00a0 arrested kassum\u00a0 and handed him over to the Criminals Investigations Department of the Police in Cape Coast.<\/p>\n
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Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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