University student stabs colleague

A First year student of the University Of Cape
Coast (UCC), who stabbed his colleague in the
armpit with a broken bottle, for mocking him,
was on Monday granted bail by a Cape Coast
Circuit Court.
Jeffery Obeng, a 24 year old Mathematics and
Business student, was granted bail in the sum of
GH¢ 5, 000.00 with two sureties.
He pleaded not guilty to intentionally and
unlawfully causing harm and would reappear
before the court on Wednesday, January 21,
2015.
Police Chief Inspector Charles Anku, prosecuting,
told the court presided over Mr. Kofi Seshie
Ametewee, that Obeng was a resident of the
University’s Student Representative Council
Hostel, and on Tuesday December 23, he stole a
laptop computer belonging to Richard Opoku, a
colleague student.
He said Obeng hid the computer with another
colleague but it was retrieved by the Campus
Security Guards after the owner had made a
complaint to them.
Chief Inspector Anku said on that same day at
about 1600hrs, some of Obeng’s colleagues saw
him and started teasing him over the theft
case, but this infuriated him and as a result
stabbed one of them, Vincent Opoku Agyeman,
in the left hand armpit, with a broken bottle.
He said the victim who sustained severe injury,
was initially rushed to the UCC Hospital, but was
later referred to the Cape Coast Teaching
Hospital where he was admitted and was
responding to treatment.
He said investigations were ongoing.
Source: GNA