From Vincent Amenuveve, Tamale
THE Tamale High Court has sentenced Abdulai Haruna, an unemployed teenager, to death by hanging for murdering a student, Sisu Seidu in Yendi, over a girl.
A seven-member jury returned a unanimous verdict of guilty of murder. Haruna had pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Presenting the facts of the case at the court presided over by a Supervising High Court Judge, Mr Justice Lawrence Ladzagla Mensah, a Senior State Attorney, Mr Salia Abdul-Quddus, told the court that the 18-year-old convict and the deceased both lived in Yendi.
According to Mr Abdul-Quddus, on June, 15, 2009, there was a football match at the Yendi football park which both the convict and the deceased attended.
The prosecutor further stated that the deceased saw the convict in the company of a lady, Kande Mohammed and advised him (the convict) to stop any relationship he had with the lady because she (the lady) was married.
The convict did not take kindly to the advice and that resulted in a confrontation in the course of which the convict was beaten up but they were separated and they went to their respective homes.
Mr Abdul-Quddus said on June 22, 2009, between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00p.m., the deceased was in his house with his colleagues when the convict went there accompanied by the lady (Kande) and another gentleman.
The convict invited the deceased out under the pretext of settling their misunderstanding.
According to the prosecution, as soon as the deceased followed the convict out, he (the convict) drew a jack knife out of his pocket and stabbed the deceased in the chest.
The deceased fell unconscious as he lost a lot of blood and was subsequently rushed to the Yendi Government Hospital, where he died on arrival.
Mr Abdul-Quddus stated that the convict fled the scene after the act but was later arrested and after further investigations, he was charged with one count of murder.
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