From Della Russel Ocloo, Ashaiman
THE Ashaiman Circuit Court, presided over by Justice Seyram Yao Azumah, has remanded into prison custody a 31-year-old butcher, Arafat Mohammed, for defrauding by false pretence.
Arafat, according to the prosecutor, Inspector Mary Assan, purchased two cattle at GH¢1,022 from one Sampson Adedome, his business partner but failed to pay.
Presenting the facts of the case, Inspector Assan said Arafat on November 3, 2010, at about 4:30p.m. went to Mr Adedome, a cattle herdsman, at Tulaku in Ashaiman and requested for the animals for a customer who needed them urgently with the promise to pay later.
She said Mr Adedome who knows Arafat as a rustler released two of the cattle to him.
The prosecutor said Arafat after receiving the animals went into hiding and all efforts to reach him proved unsuccessful prompting Mr Adedome to lodge a complaint with the Community 22 police on November 22. He was arrested and sent to police custody at Ashaiman.
Arafat admitted the offence in his caution statement and was subsequently arraigned before court.
Arafat, whose plea of not guilty was rejected by the court, told the presiding judge that he sold the cattle at a cheap cost to enable him settle debts he owed his creditors.
He said an amount of GH¢25 which was found on him at the time of his arrest was the remaining amount from the sale of the cattle.
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